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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39682	A saint indeed: or The great work of a Christian, opened and pressed; from Prov. 4. 23 Being a seasonable and proper expedient for the recovery of the much decayed power of godliness, among the professors of these times. By John Flavell M. of the Gospel.	Flavel, John, 1630?-1691.	1668 (1668)	Wing F1187; ESTC R218294	100,660	242

in times of danger distracts weakens and unfits the heart for duty drives men upon unlawful means and brings a snare with it Well then the fourth Case will be this 4. Case How a Christian may keep his heart from distracting and tormenting fears in times of great and threatning dangers Now there are fourteen excellent Rules or helps for the keeping of the heart from sinful fear when eminent dangers threaten us and the first is this 1. Rule Look upon all the Creatures as in the hand of God who manages them in all their motions limiting restraining and determining them all at his pleasure Get this great truth well se●led by faith in your hearts it will marvellously gu●rd them against slavish fears the I. of Ezek. contains an admirable scheam or draught of Providence there you may see the living Creatures who move the wheels viz. the great Affairs and turnings of things here below coming unto Christ who sits upon the throne to receive new orders and instructions from him v. 24. 25 26. and in Rev. 6. you read of white black and red Horses which are nothing else but the Instruments which God employs in executing his judgments in the World as Wars Pestilence and Death but when these Horses are pra●sing and trampling up and down the World here is that may quiet our hearts that God hath the reins in his hand Wicked men are sometimes like mad Horses they would stamp the people of God under their feet but that the bridle of Providence is in their lips Iohn 19 11 12. A Lion at liberty is terrible to meet but who is afraid of the Lion in the Keepers hand 2. Rule Remember that this God in whose hand all the Creatures are is your Father and is much more tender over you than you are or can be over your selves He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of mine eye Zech. 2. 8. Let me ask the most timerous woman whether there be not a vast difference betwixt the sight of a drawn sword in the hand of a bloudy Russian and the same sword in the hand of her own tender Husband as great a difference there is in looking upon Creatures by an eye of sense and looking on them as in the hand of your God by an eye of Faith that is a sweet Scripture to this purpose Isa. 54. 5. The Maker is thine Husband the Lord of Hosts is His Name He is Lord of all the Hosts of Creatures in the world who would be afraid to pass through an Army though all the Souldiers should turn their Swords and Guns towards him if the General of that Army were his friend or Father I have met with an excellent Story of a religious young man who being at Sea with many other Passengers in a great storm and they being half dead with fear he only was observed to be very chearful as if he had been but little concerned in that danger one of them demanding a reason of his chearfulness Oh said he 't is because the Pilot of the ship is my Father Consider Christ first as the King and Supream Lord over the Providential Kingdome and then as your Head Husband and Friend and thou wilt quickly say Return unto thy rest O my soul. This truth will make you cease trembling and fall a singing in the midst of dangers Psalm 47. 7. The Lord is King of all the earth sing ye praise with understanding or as the Hebrew word is every one that hath understanding viz. of this heart reviving and establishing Doctrine of the Dominion of our Father over all the Creatures 3. Rule Urge upon your hearts the express prohibitions of Christ in this Case and let your hearts stand in awe of the violations of them He hath charged you not to fear Luke 21. 9. When ye shall hear of Wars and commotions see that ye be not terrified And P●il 1. 28. In nothing be terrified by your adversaries yea in Matth. 10. 26. 28 31. and within the compass of six verses our Saviour commands us thrice not to fear men Doth every big word of proud dust and ashes make thee afraid doth the voice of a man make thee tremble and shall not the voice of God If thou art of such a fearful and timerous spirit how is it that thou fearest not to disobey the flat commands of J●sus Christ Methinks the command of Christ should have as much power to calm as the voice of a poor worm to terrify thy heart Isa. 51. 12 13. I even I am ●e that comforteth you who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall dye and of the son of man that shall be made as the grass and forgettest the Lord thy maker We cannot fear Creatures sinfully till we have forgotten God did we remember what he is and what he hath said we should not be of such feeble spirits bring thy heart then to this Dilemma in timfs of danger if I let into my heart the slavish fear of man I must let out the reverential awe and fear of God and dare I cast off the fear of the Almighty for the ●rowns of a man Shall I lift up proud dust above the great God Shall I run upon a certain sin to shun a probable danger Oh keep thy heart by that Consideration 4. Rule Remember how much needless trouble your vain fears have brought upon you formerly and how you have disquieted your selves to no purpose Isa. 51. 13. And hast feared continually because of the oppressor as if he were ready to devour and where is the fury of the Oppressor He seem'd ready to devour but yet you are not devoured I have not brought upon you the thing that ye feared You have wasted your spirits disordered your souls and weakened your hands and all this to no purpose You might have all this while enjoyed your peace and possessed your souls in patience And here I cannot but observe a very deep policy of Satan managing a design against the soul by these vain fears I call them vain in regard of the frustration of them by Providence but certainly they are not in vain as to the end Satan aims at in ra●sing them for herein he acts as Souldiers use to do in the Siege of a Garrison who on purpose to wear out the besieged by constant watchings and thereby unfit them to make resistance when they storm it in earnest do every night give them false Allarms which though they come to nothing yet do notably serve this further design of the enemy O when will you beware of Sathans devices 5. Rule Consider solemnly That though the things you fear should really fall out yet there is more evil in your own fear than in the thing feared And that not only as the least evil of sin is worse than the greatest evil of suffering but as this sinful fear hath really more torment and trouble in it than is in that condition you are so much afraid of fear