Precious faith considered in its nature, working, and growth

63.17. After all our wantonness we shall be glad to come to holy Fear again; Sovereignty will make us fear him in every thing: such a fight of him by Faith as this makes him practically to us [Greek or Hebrew] the fear, as he is called, Psal. 76.11. Moreover Faith moves this Fear into act by showing the great evil of Sin: Sense looks on penal evils which press on the outward man, but Faith on Sin as the greatest of evils, it being an opposite to God, a blot to the Soul, a blast to the World, a forfeiture of Heaven, and fuel for the flames of Hell; a thing not to be done, Pro quantiscunque bonis lucrandis, aut pro quantiscunque malis pracavendis; for the gaining never so great a good, or for the avoiding never so great an evil, as Bradwardine speaks. Hence St. Austin said, That a man must not tell a lie to save a world. And Henry Flander being a ⟨p. 307⟩Prisoner for the Protestant Religion, would not say, That his Wife was his Whore, no, not to save his life offered to him on those terms. Now Fear being a kind of flight from evil, the greater the evil is, the greater is the flight; and when an evil is the greatest of evils, such as Sin appears to Faith, the flight from it is as from Hell it self; and more if possible, according to the saying of Anselm, That if Sin were set before him on the one band, and Hell on the other, he would rather leap into Hell than fall into Sin.

63.17. After all our wantonness we shall be glad to come to holy Fear again; Soveraignty will make us fear him in every thing: such a fight of him by Faith as this makes him practically to us 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 the fear, as he is called, Psal. 76.11. Moreover Faith moves this Fear into act by shewing the great evil of Sin: Sense looks on penal evils which press on the outward man, but Faith on Sin as the greatest of evils, it being an opposite to God, a blot to the Soul, a blast to the World, a forfeiture of Heaven, and fuel for the flames of Hell; a thing not to be done, Pro quantiscunque bonis lucrandis, aut pro quantiscunque malis pracavendis; for the gaining never so great a good, or for the avoiding never so great an evil, as Bradwardine speaks. Hence St. Austin said, That a man must not tell a lie to save a world. And Henry Flander being a