An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

Our work therefore in the next place, is to direct a Christian in the discerning between a Natural fear, and a Sinful fear, that he may know what is of ¹mere nature and what is of corrupt nature. Only it is good to take notice of this:

Our work therefore in the next place, is to direct a Christian in the discerning between a Natural fear, and a Sinfull fear, that he may know what is of ¹meer nature and what is of corrupt nature. Only it is good to take notice of this:

1. 1There is a natural fear of death in all, but in some more, in some less.There is a natural fear of death in all, but in some more, in some lesse.

1. That a natural fear of death may be in some more, and in some less, from the very constitution and temperament of their body. Some are very fearful by their very natural complexion, and to such death is more dreadful than to others, who are of a more bold and stout constitution: Even as some are more prone to anger than others; so some are more prone to fear than others; and this being a natural passion, they cannot conquer it, no more than grace can change the temperament of the body. Only to the godly, such a natural fear is sanctified: They go out of themselves, they depend much upon God. And therefore some who have been assaulted exceedingly with fears in the times of persecution, suspecting their own selves, that they should prove perfidious to Christ, and Apostates, have found unexpected courage and boldness, because they have gone out of themselves, and trusted in God only. These Lambs have proved Lions. Hence the Scripture, antidotes and comfortable promises against this fear, Isa. 53. 4. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not. Yea we have a precious promise to the godly, that under Christs government and protection over them,