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_Celui que met un frein a la fureur des flots,
Scait aussi des mechans arreter les complots;
Soumis avecs respect a sa volutte sainte,
Je crains Dieu, cher Abner, & n'ai point d'autre crainte._

3. 'He who ruleth the raging of the sea, knows also how to check the
designs of the ungodly. I submit myself with reverence to his holy will.
O Abner! I fear my God, and I fear none but him.' Such a thought gives
no less a solemnity to human nature, than it does to good writing.

4. This religious fear, when it is produced by just apprehensions of a
divine power, naturally overlooks all human greatness that stands in
competition with it, and extinguishes every other terror that can settle
itself in the heart of a man: it lessens and contracts the figure of the
most exalted person: it disarms the tyrant and executioner, and
represents to our minds the most enraged and the most powerful as
altogether harmless and impotent.

5. There is no true fortitude which is not founded upon this fear, as
there is no other principle of so settled and fixed a nature. Courage
that grows from constitution, very often forsakes a man when he has
occasion for it; and when it is only a kind of instinct in the soul,
breaks out on all occasions without judgment or discretion. That courage
which proceeds from a sense of our duty, and from a fear of offending
him that made us, acts always in an uniform manner, and according to the
dictates of right reason.

6. What can a man fear who takes care in all his actions to please a
Being that is omnipotent; a Being who is able to crush all his
adversaries; a Being that can divert any misfortune from befalling him,
or turn any such misfortune to his advantage? The person who lives with
this constant and habitual regard to the great superintendant of the
world, is indeed sure that no real evil can come into his lot.

7. Blessings may appear under the shape of pains, losses and
disappointments, but let him have patience, and he will see them in
their proper figures. Dangers may threaten him, but he may rest
satisfied that they will either not reach him, or that if they do, they
will be the instruments of good to him. In short, he may lock upon all
crosses and accidents, sufferings and afflictions, as means which are
made use of to bring him to happiness.

8. This is even the worst of that man's condition whose mind is
possessed with the habitual fear of which I am now speakin