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…

When warning is given of Gods Judgements, as here there was, ⁱThey fear least, whom they most concern; and they fear most, whom they least concern. They fear most, that have least ⟨p. 103⟩cause to fear; and they fear least, that have most cause to fear. He feared here that was to be saved; when they feared not that were to be destroyed. Gods children oft-times fear for them, when they fear not for themselves. As for matter of grief, DAVID saith of himself, ^kI beheld the transgressors and was grieved, to see how they brake thy Law: And, ^lMine eyes run down with streams of water, because men keep not thy Statutes. He was grieved for them, when they were not grieved for themselves; yea he sorrowed, with ^mPaul, for them and their sins, because they sorrowed not for them themselves. ⁿIf you be sorry, saith Bernard, I am sorry with you; if you be not, I am sorry for you: and the more sorry for you, the less sorry you are your self. And indeed, ^oHe is most to be bewailed, saith Gregory, that bewaileth himself least. ^pIn the natural Body the pain of one limb causeth pain to all his fellow limbs: but in the spiritual Body politic, not the pain only of a limb, but ^qthe want of pain in a limb, is a means of pain to the fellow-members. So for matter of fear; ^rFear, saith he, is fallen upon me, for the wicked, because they forsake thy Law. And, when ^s