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Two sermons tending to direction for Christian carriage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and…Two sermons tending to direction for Christian cariage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and…
Two sermons tending to direction for Christian carriage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and in judgements imminent : the former on Psalm 13.1, the latter on Hebr. 11.7 / by Thomas Gataker, B. in D. and pastor of Rotherhith.Two sermons tending to direction for Christian cariage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and in judgements imminent : the former on Psalm 13.1, the latter on Hebr. 11.7 / by Thomas Gataker, B. in D. and pastor of Rotherhith.
London: printed by John Haviland, 1623London: printed by Iohn Haviland, 1623
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There are two ordinary attendants of faith, faith of future things I mean, and those such as may concern us either directly or indirectly, Hope and Fear. And true faith hath ever one of these twain attending on it, according to the nature of the thing apprehended by it. If it be a good thing that faith apprehendeth, it expecteth it with hope; if an evil thing, with fear. If it be ⟨p. 99⟩a promise that Faith layeth hold on, it breedeth hope: if it be a threatening that Faith fasteneth on, it worketh Fear.
There are two ordinarie attendants of faith, faith of future things I meane, and those such as may concerne vs either directly or indirectly, Hope and Feare. And true faith hath euer one of these twaine attending on it, according to the nature of the thing apprehended by it. If it be a good thing that faith apprehendeth, it expecteth it with hope; if an euill thing, with feare. If it be ⟨p. 99⟩a promise that Faith layeth hold on, it breedeth hope: if it be a threatning that Faith fastneth on, it worketh Feare.
Yea these two affections, Credulity and Timidity, Faith and Fear, do mutually and interchangeably succeed either other, produce either other. Faith breedeth Fear, and Fear breedeth Faith. Credulity maketh men timorous: and Timidity maketh men credulous. dFear is very credulous, and suspicious, eready to incline to the worse side, and to fasten upon every shadow and least show of that that it surmiseth. And as Timidity is credulous, so Credulity is as timorous, enforcing the mind to hang in continual suspense and expectation of those evils that it apprehendeth as imminent. Upon Micah's Prophecy f