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There hath been much fear struck into your hearts at such times, but know there may be much trembling at Gods great works, and yet God not feared; As at the giving of the Law, the people were terrified when they saw and heard those terrible things at Mount Sinai, and yet afterwards God says, Oh that there were a heart in this people to fear me. God does not own all that scaring of theirs before for any true fear of his Name; the Lord therefore grant, that that fear which in such times hath possessed your hearts, may prove and appear to be not so much the fear of dangers, as the true fear of the great God appearing to you in such great and dreadful works of his; that if there were any stirrings in your consciences before now by such a sight of God causing his fear to be upon you, those beginnings may be brought forth to a good and blessed issue, that though ⟨p. 83⟩your hearts stuck before, and could not be brought off without much ado to any thing that was good, yet that now this work of God may bring them off, and now there may be an everlasting divorce between your hearts and those evils which before did cleave so close and fast unto you; As we read, Psal. 29. That the voice of the Lord in tempest causeth the Hinds to calve; now they are creatures that do not calve without great difficulty, but the fear that is upon them at such times causeth them to bring forth their young: you have had many stirrings of heart, but yet nothing hath come of them, the Lord cause the fear of his great name now to be effectual, that those stirrings may bring forth something for the honour of God and your own peace.

There hath beene much feare struck into your hearts at such times, but know there may be much trembling at Gods great workes, and yet God not feared; As at the giving of the Law, the people were terrified vvhen they saw and heard those terrible things at Mount Sinai, and yet afterwards God sayes, Oh that there were a heart in this people to feare me. God does not owne all that skaring of theirs before for any true feare of his Name; the Lord therefore grant, that that feare which in such times hath possessed your hearts, may prove and appeare to bee not so much the feare of dangers, as the true feare of the great God appearing to you in such great and dreadfull workes of his; that if there were any stirrings in your consciences before now by such a sight of God causing his feare to be upon you, those beginnings may be brought forth to a good and blessed issue, that though