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…

But what is the reason hereof? Surely therefore so little fear, because so little ^†Faith. The general want of fear argueth a general want of Faith. Therefore never more security, because never less faith. Our Saviour himself intimateth as much. He telleth of ^ta world of troubles, over and beside a ^uworld of wickedness, that should be toward the worlds end. And yet withal that ^xit should then be, as before the Flood it had been, when men ^ygave themselves wholly to eating and drinking, building and planting, making merry and marrying: and as they did nothing else, so ^zthey minded nought else, till the Flood came in suddenly and swept them all away at once. ^aThey shall cry, Peace, Peace, and all is well; saith the Apostle, until sudden destruction surprise them, as pains and pangs do a woman with child, taken before her reckoning be out. And the reason hereof our Saviour secretly doth elsewhere ⟨p. 102⟩imply, when he saith, ^bThe Son of Man when he cometh, shall he find Faith upon earth? As if scarce any Faith should be found in the world at the worlds end: and the most therefore should make but a mock of the last Judgement, as ^cSaint Peter also fore-telleth.

But what is the reason hereof? Surely therefore so little feare, because so little ^†