Resurrection-Body consists of the same individual parcels and particles whereof the mortal Body consisted before it was putrified or dispers'd And whether the Book of Life are to be understood in a literal sence The last Head is of such things as belong to the Natural World And to this may be reduc'd innumerable Instances where we leave the literal sence if inconsistent with Science or experience And the truth is if we should follow the Vulgar Style and literal sence of Scripture we should all be Anthropomorphites as to the Nature of God And as to the Nature of his works in the external Creation we must renounce Philosophy and Natural Experience if the descriptions and accounts given in Scripture concerning the Heavens the Earth the Sea and other parts of the World be received as accurate and just representations of the state and properties of those Bodies Neither is there any danger lest this should affect or impeach the Divine Veracity for Scripture never undertook nor was ever designed to teach us Philosophy or the Arts and Sciences And whatsoever the Light of Nature can reach and comprehend is improperly the Subject of Revelation But some men out of love to their own ease and in defence of their ignorance are not only for a Scripture-Divinity but also for a Scripture-Philosophy 'T is a cheap and compendious way and saves them the trouble of farther study or examination Upon the whole you see it is no fault to recede from the literal sence of Scripture but the fault is when we leave it without a just cause As it is no fault for a man to separate from a Church or for a Prince to make war against his Neighbour but to do the one or the other without a just cause is a real fault We all leave the literal sence in certain cases and therefore that alone is no sufficient charge against any man But he that makes a separation if I may so call it without good reasons he is truly obnoxious to censure The great result of all therefore is this to have some common Rule to direct us when every one ought to follow and when to leave the Literal Sence And that Rule which is generally agreed upon by good Interpreters is this Not to leave the literal Sence when the subject matter will bear it without absurdity or incongruity This Rule I have always proposed to my self and always endeavoured to keep close to it But some inconsiderate minds make every departure from the Letter let the Matter or Cause be what it will to be an affront to Scripture And there where we have the greatest liberty I mean in things that relate to the Natural world They have no more indulgence or moderation than if it was an intrenchment upon the Articles of Faith In this particular I cannot excuse the present Animadverter yet I must needs say he is a very Saint in comparison of another Animadverter who hath writ upon the same subiect but neither like a Gentleman nor like a Christian nor like a Scholar And such Writings answer themselves FINIS Pag. 44. Pag. 45. Eng. Theor. p. 65. Eng. Theor. â— 106. 107. â— 74. lin 18 19. p. 77 78. 79. p. 79. p. 80 81 p. 83. Prin. ph l. 4. §. 84. Meteor c. 1. §. 8. Prin. phil l. 4. §. 76. Eng. Theor. p. 58 59. p. 80 81. p. 81. * Ego quidem in eâ sum sententiâ si in harum rerum de quibus agitur cognitionem aut aliarum quarumcunque quae momenti sunt visum fuerit Deo aut Naturae ut pateret hominibus ratio perveniendi ratio illa certa est in aliquâ clarâ invictâ evidentiâ fundata non conjecturalis vaga dubia Qualem nempe ii qui optimè utuntur libertate suâ qui maximè sibi cavent ab erroribus nunquam amplecterentur Pag. 52. lin 17. lin 27. p. 78. p. 299. pen. p. 86. * Si admittamus insuper Ignem Centralem sive Massam ignis in centro Terrae quod quidem non est hujus argumenti Neque partem intimam Chaos nisi obiter pro formâ consideravi cum ad rem nostram non spectet Vid. etiam p. 186. edit 2. Eng. Theor. p. 324. p 88. p. 106. p. 114. p. 118. Gen. 1. 22. 22. ch 13. p. 121. Eph. 1. 4. 1 Pet. 1. 20. Apoc. 13. 8. p. 122. p. 121. * Notandum verò quamvis mundi veteris dissolutionem rationes Diluvii secundum ordinem causarum naturalium explicemius quòd eo modo magis clare distincte intelligantur non ideo in poenam humani generis ordinatum fuisse diluvium singulisque ipsius motibus praefuisse providentiam inficiamur imo in eo elucet maximè Sapientia divina quod mundum naturalem morali ita coaptet attemperet ut hujus ingenio illius ordo dispositio semper respondeat amborum libratis momentis simul concurrant unà compleantur utriusque tempora vicissitudines ipse etiam Apostolus Petrus diluvii excidii mundani causas naturales assignat cùm ait 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Theor. p. 106 107 108. Ver. 5 p. 137. Theor. c. 1. Review p. 29 c. * Eng. Theor p. 86. p. 86. Excep p. 140. p. 141. p. 146. p. 148. p. 149. Gen. 1. 2. p. 150. p. 143. p. 81. p. 100. last part p. 154. p. 227 228. p. 244. p. 279 280. p. 288. p. 158. Lat. Theor. li. 2. c. 4. p. 159. p. 263 264 265. Eng. Theor. p. 286 287. p. 166. p. 168. p. 169. p. 170. p. 1â—1 Eng. Theor. p. 99. p. 176. p. 177. p. 178. p. 179. p. 180. p. 181. p. 182. p. 184. Praep. Evan. l. 10. c. ult p. 504. Col. ch 14. p. 750. Strom. 2. p. 364. Phaed. p. 99. Serem 2. p. 416. Li. 2. c. 10. p. 274. Vid. Theor. Lat. li. 2. c. 10. in fine * De Grat. Prim. hom c. 12. Accedit ad haec quod Paradisus it a describitur à Sancto Basilio in Libro de Paradiso à Joan. Damasceno Libro secundo de fide capite undecimo à Sancto Augustino libro decimo quarto de civitate Dei capit 10. Ab Alchimo Avito Claud. Mario victore aliis suprà citatis Isidoro libro decimo quarto Etymolog capite tertio aliis communiter ut fuerit in eo ver perpetuum nulla figora nulli aestus nullae pluviae nives grandines nullae etiam nubes quod ipsum significat scriptura cum dicit primos homines in Paradiso fuisse nudos See Eng. Theor. p. 253. p. 185. p. 180. p. 187. p. 188. p. 189. p. 190. p. 186. p. 195. Plat. in Phaed. Lat. Theor li. 2. c. 10. p. 197. p. 186. Theor. Lat. li. 2. c. 5. p. 198. p. 201. Isa. 9. 6 7. Isa. 9. 1 c. Luk. 1. 31 32 33. p. 202. p. 205. p. 206. p. 207. ibid. p. 208. p. 208 209 c. p. 209. p. 51. the 4th day was the first day of the Sun's existence p. 209. p. 215. p. 216. p. 215. li. 24. Gen. 6. 1â— * Per ludibrium rogant nasuti homines unde Architectos Opifices conduxerit Cain ad urbem extruendam Nos vicissim ab illis quaerimus quo authore credant Vrbem ex quadratis lapidibus fuisse extructam magno artificio multisque sumptibus longi temporis operâ aedificium hoc constitisse Nihil enim aliud colligere licet exverbis Mosis quà m muros ex rudi materiâ Cain sibi posteris circumdedisse Cal. in loc p. 250. p. 224. Iob 38. 8. p. 219 220. p. 225 226. Gen. 1. 17. p. 234. p. 246. p. 257. 2 Kings 13. 17. Eng. Theor. book 2. ch 5. Eng. Theor. book 2. ch 7. p. 265. p. 273. See the Table of both Eng. Theor. p. 220. Gen. 47. 9. Theor. bo 2. ch 3. 4th p. 2â—7 p. 276 277. p. 278. 79 280. ibid. Eng. Theor. p. 23. ibid. p. 280. p. 281. p. 285. p. 286. ibid. See Review p. 35 c. p. 288. Eng. Theor. p. 108. p. 98. p. 289 ibid. See p. 27. before p. 290. p. 292. p. 296. Eng. Theor. book 2. ch 9. at the end p. 299. p. 297 300. p. 300. p. 329. lin 19. c. 31. p. 339. lin 18. p. 312. ult Eng. Theor. ch 2. 3. * The Excepter rejects first the Waters of the Sea Then the Waters in the bowels of the Earth Then the Supercelestial Waters Then a New Creation of Waters Then the mass of Air chang'd into water And lastly a partial Deluge And therefore he puts men fatally either upon the Theory or upon his new Hypothesis p. 301. p. 302. lin 21. 1 Sam. 17. 4. Gen. 7. 19. * This he acknowledges p. 325. We expound a Text or two of Scripture so as none ever did and deserting the common receiv'd sence put an unusual Gloss upon them not to say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a private interpretation and p. 359. p. 215 216 292 c. p. 330. p. 332 333. p. 337. p. 339. p. 341. See ch 10. Gen. 8. 5. p. 341. p. 343. p. 303. * p. 303. But though these Caverns be called Deeps we must not take them for profound places that went down into the Earth below the common Surface of it on the contrary they were situate above it * Psal. 114. 7 8. Tremble thou Earth at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the God of Jacob Which turned the Rock into a standing water the flint into a fountain of Waters Num. 20. 10 11. And Moses and Aaron gathered the Congregation together before the Rock and he said unto them Hear now you rebels must we fetch you water out of this Rock And Moses lift up his hand and with his rod he smote the Rock twice and the Water came out abundantly p. 303 305. * ch 3. p. 343. Eng. Theor. p. 150. Eng. Theor. p. 96. Eng. Theor p. 288. p. 43. p. 78. p. 286. Ps. 19. 5 6. Ios. 10. 12 13. 2 Kin. 20. 10 11. Isa. 38. 8. p. 157. p. 74. Gen. 7. 19 20. Gen. 8. 5. p. 216. Mat. 5. 29 30. Phil. 4. 3. Apoc. 3. 5. 20. 12.
consequently no fit Sources of water for the rest of the Earth Why we should think those Regions would be frozen and the Rains that fell in them he gives two Reasons the Distance and the Obliquity of the Sun As also the experience we have now of the coldness and frozenness of those parts of the Earth But as to the Distance of the Sun He confesses that is not the thing that does onely or chiefly make a Climate cold He might have added particularly in that Earth where the Sun was never at a greater distance than the Equator Then as to the Obliquity of the Sun neither was that so great nor so considerable in the first Earth as in the present Because the Body of that lay in a direct position to the Sun whereas the present Earth lies in an Oblique And tho' the Polar circles or circumpolar parts of that Earth did not lie so perpendicular to the Sun as the Equinoctial and consequently were cooler yet there was no danger of their being frozen or congeal'd It was more the moisture and excessive Rains of those parts that made them uninhabitable than the extreme coldness of the Climate of it self And if the Excepter had well consider'd the differences betwixt the present and primitive Earth as to obliquity of position and that which follows from it the length of Nights He would have found no reason to have charg'd that Earth with nipping and freezing cold where there was not I believe one morsel of Ice from one pole to another But that will better appear if we consider the causes of Cold. There are three general causes of Cold the distance of the Sun his Obliquity and his total Absence I mean in the Nights As to distance that alone must be of little effect seeing there are many Planets which must not be lookt upon as meer lumps of Ice at a far greater distance from the Sun than ours And as to Obliquity you see it was much less considerable in the respective parts of the Primitive Earth than of the present Wherefore these are to be consider'd but as secondary causes of Cold in respect of the third the total absence of the Sun in the night time And where this happens to be long and tedious there you must expect excess of Cold. Now in the primitive Earth there was no such thing as long winter nights but every where a perpetual Equinox or a perpetual Day And consequently there was no room or cause of excessive cold in any part of it But on the contrary the case is very different in the present Earth For in our Climate we have not the presence of the Sun in the depth of Winter half as long as he is absent And towards the Poles they have nights that last several weeks or months together And then 't is that the Cold rages binds up the ground freezes the Ocean and makes those parts more or less uninhabitable But where no such causes are you need not fear any such effects Thus much to shew that there might be Rains Waters and Rivers in the primigenial Earth and towards the extreme parts of it without any danger of freezing But however says the other part of the exception These Rivers would not be made in due time That 's wholly according to the process you take It you take a meer natural process the Rivers could not flow throughout the Earth all on a sudden but you may accelerate that process as much as you please by a Divine Hand As to this particular indeed of the Rivers one would think there should be no occasion for their sudden flowing through the Earth because mankind could not be suddenly propagated throughout the Earth And if they did but lead the way and prepare the ground in every countrey before mankind arrived there that seems to be all that would be necessary upon their account Neither can it be imagin'd but that the Rivers would flow faster than mankind could follow for 't is probable in the first hundred years men did not reach an hundred miles from home or from their first habitations and we cannot suppose the defluxion of Water upon any declivity to be half so slow As to the chanels of these Rivers the manner of their progress and other circumstances Those things are set down fully enough in the 5 th Chapter of the 2 d Book of the English Theory and it would be needless to repeat them here But the Anti-theorist says this slow production and propagation of Rivers is contrary to Scripture Both because of the Rivers of Paradise and also because Fishes were made the Sixth day As to that of the Fishes He must first prove that those were River-fishes for the Scripture makes them Sea-fish and instances in great Whales But he says p. 113 114. it will appear in the sequel of his Discourse that the Abyss could be no receptacle of fishes To that sequel of his Discourse therefore we must refer the examination of this particular Then as to Paradise that was but one single spot of ground according to the ordinary Hypothesis which he seems to adhere to and Rivers might be there as soon as he pleases seeing its seat is not yet determin'd But as for the Lands which they are said to traverse or encompass that might be the work of time when their chanels and courses were extended and setled As they would be doubtless long before the time that Moses writ that description But as to the Rivers of Paradise it would be a long story to handle that dispute here And 't is fit the Authors should first agree amongst themselves before we determine the original of its River or Rivers CHAP. VI. WE come now to the Deluge where the great Exception is this That according to the Theory the Deluge would have come to pass whether mankind had been degenerate or no. We know mankind did degenerate and 't is a dangerous thing to argue upon false suppositions and to tell what would have come to pass in case such a thing had not come to pass Suppose Adam had not sin'd what would have become of the Messiah and the Dispensation of the Gospel which yet is said to have been determin'd more early than the Deluge Let the Anti-theorist answer himself this question and he may answer his own But to take a gentler instance Suppose Adam had not eaten the forbidden fruit How could He and all his Posterity have liv'd in Paradise A few generations would have fill'd that place and should the rest have been turn'd out into the wide World without any sin or fault of theirs You suppose the Ante-diluvian Heavens and Earth to have been the same with the present and consequently subject to the same accidents and inconveniences The action of the Sun would have been the same then as now according to your Hypothesis The same excesses of heat and cold in the several regions and climates The same Vapours and
Exhalations extracted out of the Earth The same impurities and corruptions in the air and in consequence of these the same external dispositions to Epidemical distempers Besides there would be the same storms and tempests at Sea the same Earth-quakes and other desolations at Land So that had all the Sons and Daughters of men to use the Excepter's elegant style been as pure and bright as they could possibly have dropt out of the mint of Creation They should still have been subject to all these inconveniences and calamities If mankind had continued spotless and undegenerate till the Deluge or for sixteen hundred years they might as well have continued so for sixteen hundred more And in a far less time according to their fruitfulness and multiplication the whole face of the Earth would have been thick covered with inhabitants every Continent and every Island every Mountain and every Desert and all the climates from Pole to Pole But could naked innocency have liv'd happy in the frozen Zones where Bears and Foxes can scarce subsist In the midst of Snows and Ice thick foggs and more than Aegyptian darkness for some months together Would all this have been a Paradise or a Paradisiacal state to these Virtuous Creatures I think it would be more adviseable for the Excepter not to enter into such disputes grounded only upon suppositions God's prescience is infallible as his counsels are immutable But the Excepter further suggests that the Theory does not allow a judicial and extraordinary Providence in bringing on the Deluge as a punishment upon mankind Which I must needs say is an untrue and uncharitable suggestion As any one may see both in the Latin Theory Chap. 6th and in the English in several places So at the entrance upon the explication of the Deluge Theor. p. 68. are these words Let us then suppose that at a time appointed by Divine Providence and from causes made ready to do that great execution upon a sinful world that this Abyss was open'd and the frame of the Earth broke c. And accordingly in the conclusion of that discourse about the Deluge are these words Theor. p. 105. In the mean time I do not know any more to be added in this part unless it be to conclude with an advertisement to prevent any mistake or misconstruction as if this Theory by explaining the Deluge in a natural way or by natural causes did detract from the power of God by which that GREAT IVDGMENT WAS BROVGHT VPON THE WORLD IN A PROVIDENTIAL AND MIRACVLOVS MANNER And in the three following Paragraphs which conclude that Chapter there is a full account given both of an ordinary and extraordinary Providence in reference to the Deluge and other great revolutions of the Natural World But it is a weakness however to think that when a train is laid in Nature and Methods concerted for the execution of a Divine Judgment therefore it is not Providential God is the Author and Governor of the Natural World as well as of the Moral and He sees through the futuritions of both and hath so dispos'd the one as to serve him in his just Judgments upon the other Which Method as it is more to the honour of his Wisdom so it is no way to the prejudice of his Power of Justice And what the Excepter suggests concerning Atheists and their presum'd cavils at such an explication of the Deluge is a thing only said at random and without grounds On the contrary so to represent the sence of Scripture in natural things as to make it unintelligible and inconsistent with Science and Philosophick truth is one great cause in my opinion that breeds and nourishes Atheism CHAP. VII THIS Chapter is about the places of Scripture alledg'd in confirmation of the Theory And chiefly concerning that remarkable Discourse in St. Peter 2 Epist. 3. which treats of the difference of the Antediluvian World and the present World That Discourse is so fully explain'd in the Review of the Theory that I think it is plac'd beyond all exception And the Animadverter here makes his exception only against the first words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which we thus render For this they willingly are ignorant of But he generally renders it wilfully ignorant of and lays a great stress upon that word wilfully But if he quarrel with the English Translation in this particular he must also fault the Vulgate and Beza and all others that I have yet met withal And it had been very proper for him in this case to have given us some Instances or proofs out of Scripture or Greek Authors where this Phrase signifies a wilful and obstinate ignorance He says it must have been a wilful ignorance otherwise it was not blameable whereas St. Peter gives it a sharp reproof I answer There are many kinds and degrees of blameable ignorance a contented ignorance an ignorance from prejudices from non-attendance and want of due examination These are all blameable in some degree and all deserve some reproof but it was not their ignorance that St. Peter chiefly reproves but their deriding and scoffing at the Doctrine of the coming of our Saviour and the Conflagration of the World And therefore He calls them Scoffers walking after their own lusts But the Excepter seems at length inclinable to render the foremention'd words thus They are willingly mindless or forgetful And I believe the translation would be proper enough And what gentler reproof can one give than to say you are willing to forget such an Argument or such a Consideration Which implies little more than non-attention or an inclination of the will towards the contrary opinion We cannot tell what evidence or what Traditions they might have then concerning the Deluge but we know they had the History of it by Moses and all the marks in Nature that we have now of such a Dissolution And They that pretended to Philosophize upon the works of Nature and the immutability of them might very well deserve that modest rebuke That they were willing to forget the first Heavens and first Earth and the destruction of them at the Deluge when they talkt of an immutable state of Nature Neither is there any thing in all this contrary to what the Theorist had said concerning the Ancient Philosophers That none of them ever invented or demonstrated from the causes the true state of the first Earth This must be granted But it is one thing to demonstrate from the Causes or by way of Theory and another thing to know at large whether by Scripture Tradition or collection from effects The mutability and changes of the World which these Pseudo Christians would not allow of was a knowable thing taking all the means which they might and ought to have attended to At least before they should have proceeded so far as to reject the Christian doctrine concerning the future changes of the World with scorn and derision Which is the very thing the
300. lin 24. The general standing Hypothesis The usual Hypothesis The usual sence they put upon the Sacred story All these he rejects and disputes against as you may see in the places fore-cited And also he calls them such Inventions as have been and justly may be disgustful not only to nice and squeamish but to the best and soundest Philosophick judgments And p. 319. He says by his Hypothesis we are excused from running to those Causes or Methods which seem unreasonable to some and unintelligible to others and unsatisfactory to most And to name no more he says p. 330. The ordinary supposition that the Mountains were cover'd with water in the Deluge brings on a necessity of setting up a new Hypothesis for explaining the Flood Now whose Methods Inventions and Supoositions are these which he reflects upon Are they not the commonly receiv'd Methods and Suppositions 'T is plain most of those which he mentions p. 310 311 313 314 318. are not the Theorist's For the Theorist had rejected before those very Methods and Inventions which the Excepter rejects now and so far the justifies the Theory These reflections therefore must fall upon some other Hypothesis And what Hypothesis is that if it be not the Church-Hypothesis To conclude I argue thus in short to show the Excepter inconsistent with himself in this particular The Church-way of explaining the Deluge is either rational or irrational If he say it is rational why does he desert it and invent a new one And if he say it is irrational then that dreadful thing which he cannot well endure to speak That the Church of God has ever gone on in an irrational way of explaining the Deluge falls flat upon himself Thus much in general for his Introduction We proceed now to examine particularly his new Hypothesis Which as we told you before consists chiefly in this That the Waters of the Deluge were but fifteen Cubits higher than the common unmountainous Surface of the Earth This which seems so odd and extravagant he says is the Foundation of his Hypothesis And which is still more surprising he says this depth or rather shallowness or the Waters of the Deluge is told us by Scripture as plainly as it can speak This must needs raise our curiosity to see that place of Scripture which has been over-lookt by all the Learned hitherto Well 't is Gen. 7. 20. in these words Fifteen Cubits upwards did the Waters prevail This me thinks is somewhat general for the Basis of these fifteen Cubits is not exprest in these words But why does our Author stop in the middle of a Verse Why does he not transcribe the whole Verse for the last part of it is as good Scripture as the first And that says plainly that the Mountains were cover'd with the Waters The whole Verse runs thus Fifteen Cubits upwards did the Waters prevail AND THE MOVNTAINS WERE COVERED Now if the Basis of these fifteen Cubits was the commons Surface or plain level of the Earth as the new Hypothesis will have it How could fifteen Cubits from that Basis reach to the tops of the Mountains Are the highest Mountains but fifteen Cubits higher than the common surface of the Earth Goliah was six cubits and a span high So Pic Tenariff would not be thrice as high as Goliah Yet David slung a stone up to his forehead Take what cubit you please Sacred or common it does not amount to two foot So the height of the greatest Mountains from bottom to top must not be thirty foot or ten paces according to this New Hypothesis Who ever measured Mountains at this rate The modern Mathematicians allow for their height a mile perpendicular upon a moderate computation and that makes 3000 foot How then could waters that were not 30 foot high cover Mountains that were 3000 foot high That the highest Mountains of the Earth were cover'd with the waters you may see express'd more fully in the precedent verse And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the Earth And all the high Hills that were under the whole Heaven were cover'd There can scarce be words more plain and comprehensive The Excepter says the Scripture tells us as plainly as it can speak that the waters were but fifteen cubits high from the common surface of the Earth And I say The Scripture tells us as plainly as it can speak That all the high Hills under the whole Heaven were covered with water And it must be a strange sort of Geometry that makes fifteen cubits of water reach to the top of the highest Hills Lastly the same History of Moses says the tops of the Mountains were discover'd when the waters begun to decrease Gen. 8. 5. Is not that a plain demonstration that they were cover'd before and cover'd with those waters We may therefore safely conclude two things First that this new Hypothesis besides all other faults is contrary to the general exposition of the text of Moses Secondly that it is contrary to the general recei'd Doctrine of the Deluge And if he has deliver'd a doctrine contrary to these two methinks it should be hard for him to maintain his ground and not pronounce at the same time what he dreads so much to speak That the Church of God has ever gone on in an irrational way of explaining the Deluge But let 's reflect a little upon this Fifteen-cubit Deluge to see what figure it would make or what execution it would do upon mankind and upon other Creatures If you will not believe Moses as to the overflowing of the Mountains at least I hope you will believe him as to the universal destruction made by the Deluge Hear his words Gen. 7. 21 22 23. we 'l take only the last verse which is this And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground Both man and cattle and creeping things and the fowl of the heavens and they were destroyed from the Earth and Noah only remained alive and they that were with him in the Ark. Now I would gladly know how this could be verifyed in a fifteen-cubit Deluge The birds would naturally fly to the tops of Trees when the ground was wet And the Beasts would retire by degrees to the Mountains and higher parts of the Earth as the lower begun to be overflow'd and if no waters could reach them there how were they all destroy'd while they had so many Sanctuaries and places of refuge Or if you suppose some of these Creatures had not wit enough to save themselves though their wit and instincts lie chiefly in that at least mankind would not be so stupid when men see the waters begin to rise they could not fail to retire into Mountains And tho' the upper stories of their houses might be sufficient to save them from fifteen cubits of water yet if fear made them think themselves not secure there whither could it drive them but still into higher places And