Seven treatises containing such direction as is gathered out of the Holy Scriptures, leading…Seuen treatises containing such direction as is gathered out of the Holie Scriptures, leading…

And otherwise, or in other respects,¹ they need not fear that God taketh any pleasure to cast them down, who desire to stand (when his property is rather to raise up them that are fallen:) or that he seeketh every advantage,² against their infirmities, who doth not look strictly what is done amiss of them;³ but help their weakness, supply their wants, and deliver them from such dangers, as they fear, so far as it is expedient; or else make them able to bear them. For proof whereof, they may remember, how he kept them, when ⟨p. 138⟩they had small skill or ability to keep themselves,⁴ after that they first embraced §Fhis promises: will he not much more keep them safe, now they have experience of his kindness, and the power of Christ working in them? Nay, that which is more,⁵ when they were his enemies, he gave his Son to die for them: and now they are reconciled unto him, and approved of him, as his beloved ones, shall they not much more be preserved (by his living in glory) from the fearful judgements, which in his wrath he executeth against the ungodly of the world?

And otherwise, or in other respects,¹ they neede not feare that God taketh any pleasure to cast them downe, who desire to stand (when his propertie is rather to raise vp them that are fallen:) or that hee seeketh euery aduantage,² against their infirmities, who doth not look streightly what is done amisse of them;³