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…

Yea lastly, Let this admonish us, to labour to have this Fear wrought in us: whereby we may fear with NOAH, and other of the faithful, when God giveth warning of his Judgements, that we may not feel them when they come: ⁱWhen I heard it, saith Habakkuk, my belly shook, and my lips ²quaked; rottenness seized upon my bones, and I trembled at my very heart; that I might rest in the day of trouble. ^kThe fearing of them now, is the only means to prevent the feeling of them then. And the more now we fear them, the less shall we need then to fear them. He that feareth Gods word, shall not feel his Rod. He that feareth before it come, shall the less need to fear when it cometh. Fear ^lwe must therefore, saith ⟨p. 111⟩Gregory well, that we may not fear: fear when we hear it, that we may not fear when we see it: Fear with an awful and child-like fear now, that we may not fear with a distrustful and servile fear then. For ^mthose that fear most now shall have least cause to fear then, because they shall then be safe; and ⁿthose that fear least now, shall fear most then; as ^othose become most fearful, that out of ignorance were most forward, when they come to see and know the danger that they are in, which they apprehended not before.

Yea lastly, Let this admonish vs, to labour to haue this Feare wrought in vs: whereby we may feare with NOA, and other of the faithfull, when God giueth warning of his Iudgements, that we may not feele them when they come: ⁱWhen I heard it, saith Habbakuk, my belly shooke, and my lips