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A96884	The cause use cure of feare. Or, strong consolations (the consolations of God) cordiall at all times, but most comfortable now in these uncomfortable times, to fixe, quiet, and stablish the heart, though the earth shake, and make it stand stil, to see the salvation of the Lord. Taken from Gods mouth, and penned by Hezekiah VVoodward, that all his servants may have assured confidence for ever.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.	1643 (1643)	Wing W3481; Thomason E90_23; ESTC R1487	71,096	87

reason with this unreasonable Passion To keep it within bounds of just moderation is the maine intendment of this Treatise wherein but in passage only I must make cleare proofe to them who will be as are many now adayes willingly ignorant That the Citties feare is just and Reasonable That all the Causes and reasons both which can be imagined from within and from without commands the wisest men to feare yea commends them so fearing for they are wise men they can not be afraid with any amazement But that I may begin in order I must distinguish first CHAP. II. The Kindes of feare The disquietings therefrom and sharp effects The worst effect of all is It maketh a man choose sinne rather then affliction 1. THere is a feare which sinks Reason then raiseth up unreasonable motions such which make a man feare where no feare is heare a noise meerly fancyed flee when none pursueth so betrayeth the succors which reason offers (a) Wisdom 17. 12. This feare made the Syrians and others infamous in the sacred Writ to fly (b) 2 Kings 7 c. And the Papists in their houre of Darknesse and Saint Maries Church in * Act. and M●pa 1102. Oxford To shelter their heads against the scalding lead melted in the fornace of their own conceits and guilty consciences for they heard a noise of fire onely could see none and yet they thought they should be scalded to death with the droppings of lead melted in a fancyed fire of their owne imaginary This is a Panick feare a feare where there is no cause of fear a noise which GOD causeth the wicked to heare His enemies and adversaries to feele the effects thereof as we heard 2. There is a naturall feare which all partake of that partake of the same common nature Nay all creatures that have sense have sense of feare feare of suffering It is naturall The Beares will roare Ravens Crye Doves Chatter Lambs Bleat The Swine are troubled in a windy night though I read of Pyrrhos Hogge that eate his meate quietly in the ship almost covered with waves while the Passengers there were almost dead with feare And I have knowne some men who seemed to have no other sense but that sense of feeling fearlesse men They feared nothing But this fearlesnesse was not from any cleannesse and serenity of mind not from a true security and peace from within but from a dead palsie rather a stupor a blockish stupidity upon their spirits 3. There is a feare which hath a strong foundation in nature so also must it needs have the same foundation in sin A corrupt a sinfull feare And the more or lesse sin is mastered and subdued in us so will this feare be so quieted or so disquieting And this all men partake of and in measure according to the proportion before mentioned If sin beare rule in us feare when it comes will command in chiefe too and be exceeding Weaknesse and wickednesse are the very essentialls whereof it doth consist the supporters of it and when it exceeds its bounds it becomes a passion indeed We suffer much by it and act or practise in it I know not how but as men forsaken of all wit and reason both It causeth strange and strong motions within no passion stronger or stranger then feare doth It is within us like foule weather upon the sea It no sooner riseth and getreth mastery but it cloudeth our Heaven and sils the soul● with thick mists and smoak The Apostle speaks all in one word Where feare is there is torment (b) 〈…〉 22. 2. It is the very Rack of the soule it slayeth without a sword Thy slaine men are not slaine with the sword nor dead c in Battell How then were they slayn with feare that surprised 〈…〉 eye● cove●ed 〈◊〉 his death and 〈◊〉 covered again tha● hee might ●ead his 〈…〉 dead upon th● Scaf●old 〈…〉 them before the Battell and did the part of an executioner before the sword came But that is not the worst feare can doe a worse office to a man then slay him It can put us cleane off from GOD and from Duty and that is worst of all What base shifts will the soule use when feare possesseth her Feare of mans wrath feare of losse of goods of good name of liberty of life will put a man upon the losse of all we properly call good upon strange adventures upon devilish projects It will dash his soule upon this rock and the other till He hath split himselfe and made shipwrack of those inestimable treasures which render a man rich in the lowest estate and secure in the greatest danger FAITH and a good CONSCIENCE It will make a man seek for security from every thing but where it should it will make him look to all means but one in his distracting ●eare he will not look to God and an upright conversation CHAP. III. The designe of the wicked ever was and now is To make the Godly afraid The advantage if they can effect it Tongue and hand imployed about it Their judgement from the Lord Their pretence and scarce that for their works are manifest THis the wicked know very well they have learnt it of their Fathers therefore heare what they have devised anciently to make the righteous afraid When the breaches of Ierusalems walls were making up what was the great designe of the adversary then To make the builders AFRAID We reade often N●he 6. The adversaries sent and wrote Letters raised false reports hired light fellows All this they did That they might make the builders ver 13. afraid Could they have effected it according to their minds then the hands of the builders had been weakned from the worke it had not beene done (d) ver 9. If you will do any thing for The LORD keepe up your spirits and keepe out feare that infeebling Passion which cuts a Mans sinewes renders him unfit for action When the heart sinks then the hands hang downe and the work ceaseth If Nehemiah had given way to base and cowardly feare he had done so and so and sinned Besides he had given matter for an evill ver 13. report That the adversary might reproach him Thus The Adversary did anciently So hee doth now Hee takes the same way his designe and end is the very same with theirs still Hee sends hee writes hee raiseth false reports hee hires light fellowes if there bee any lighter then himselfe what tongue or hand can doe hee doth to cause terrour on every side Their tongue walketh about the City and all to disquiet the inhabitants Psal 42. 4. thereof What shall bee done unto thee thou deceitfull and mischeivous tongue for thou lovest all devouring words I cannot make full answer to that but I read The Lord shall destroy thee for ever and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place and roote thee out ver 5. of the land of the living here is also a prayer

in deep humiliation while the Joshuahs are searching the tents that the accursed thing may be cast out for so they have commanded us We must doe for the cause of Christ as the spirituall Lords Devils and men doe against Christ to shoulder Him out of His throne This is to doe our duty to doe As c. and so doing we doe our duty heartily and shall rejoyce in time to come that is very comfortable as we read it but there is more comfort in it then so we shall laugh at the time to come a Prov. 21. 2● Ridet ad tempera seq●●ontra Not care so much for the Army in the north as their fore-fathers did for an Army of frogs lice swarms of flies nor for any other mountain in the way for he shall be made a plaine Wee have and will do our Duty They that do so may laugh and sing too But these are but words the Lord knows not the speech but the power of our doing our duty And He put it into our hearts and keep it there for ever We can hardly set upon it though we are set upon by the hand of violence our gods are taken away from us I mean that we dote upon which quickned a man as dead in his body as we in our spirits For thus it was The Phisitians knew no way to quicken him out of his lethargy but by gingling his baggs before him upon the table then he awakened and stirred himselfe up for he would hold Hor. li. 2. S● Satyr 3. his bags as long as he could hold his breath This god is takē from us our liberty too and that is our god also Nay our LORD Christ is taking frō us Who gives all to us He is GOD indeed Now or never we will bethink our selves and lay out all we have are to keepe Him the LIFE of our lives and SOUL of our souls we wil keepe Him There is but this that can discourage us and it is the greatest encouragement in the world if we can contend for Him we may lose our estates and lives too That is true All may be lost most happily lost in such a contention Nay it is not lost it is gained and the greatest gain for He is worthy for Whose cause we do expend all this if it be our dearest blood and all He became poor for us to make us 2 Cor. 8 9. rich e nay a Curse for us to make us a Blessing If we think of this goods shal go and life too and blesse God with all our hearts that He put such a price into our hand to lay out our selves for Christ to suffer for Him Indeed it is as glorious a work as to beleeve in Him we cannot do the one without the other but suffering hath the preheminence that no man may be dismayed at his sufferings if called thereunto and for Christ for unto you it is given in the behalfe of Christ not onely to beleeve on Him but Philip. 1. 29. also to suffer for His sake I have done prefacing The Lord give us understanding in the times and what Israel ought to do PROV 29. 25. The feare of man bringeth a snare but who so putteth his trust in The Lord shall be safe IT is ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning Printing this 22. day of December 1642. that this booke Intituled The usefulnesse of Feare c. be printed John White Of FEARE The Just Cause The True Use The Soveraign Cure SECT I. The summe and scope of this Treatise The kinds of Feare The strange effects there from What the worst effect What the great designe of the Adversary How he prosecutes it His advantage if he can effect it His power and malice that way gives us just cause of feare CHAP. I. The Introduction to and purpose of this Treatise OUr Affections doe us the greatest service or disservice that well can be imagined and this they doe as wee master them or as they master us If we master them they are the winds of the soule carrying it so as it is neither becalmed that it moves not when it should nor yet tossed that it moves disorderly If they master us they raise storms there and we are storm-like sudden and violent carryed as a ship in a tempest If we master them they are the very wings of the soule A Prayer without them so we may say of any other performance is like a bird without wings (a) Oratio sine malis avis sine alis If I cared for nothing said Melancthon I should pray for nothing (b) Si nihil curarem nihil Orarem If they master us they are the clogs of the soule or if they be as wings it is to make us flee away from God and goodnesse from our selves and Duty Our Affections are the springs of all our services to GOD we are dry and cold and dead without them with them well ordered the soule is set on work and then the work will be done when the heart is upon it David had prepared much for the house of GOD himselfe gives the reason Because I have set my AFFECTION to the house of my GOD. (c) 1 Chr. 29. 3. Feare puts on the soule almost as fast as Love doth that great Centurion or puts it farther back I cannot doe this and sin I must doe this and why Because I have set my FEARE upon GOD and knowing the TERROR of the LORD (d) 2 Cor. 5. 11. I must perswade men In a word weare as a dead sea without our affections and as a raging sea if they exceed the bounds And no affection beats more strongly upon the soule and more like waves against the banks to exceed its just bounds and get over then feare doth and when it hath got over no affection sooner drowns the Spirits sinks Reason and so becomes a Passion indeed vexatious and troublesome for where feare is in excesse there is torment (e) 1 John 4. 18. This tormenting Passion the stilling its unreasonable motions is the subject of my Discourse now but GODS work To calme the Spirit to make it stand still when the earth shakes f Exod. 1● ●● Ne con●● 〈…〉 ●un and the kingdomes are moved I say His work Who chid the winds and commanded the seas and they obeyed Him and presently there followed a great calme Feare let alone to work its owne effects for like water it hath no bounds of its owne is g 〈◊〉 Math. 8. 20. in the heart as the tongue in the body kindleth a great fire (h) Jam. 3. 5. there from every little matter quickly raiseth that little to a raging flame which no man can quench onely GOD can And what way He commands and prescribes us for we must keep to His prescriptions the same which the whole City of GOD All His People have taken in all troublous times upward to this day To