CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

¹Lastly, A mans Trouble doth arise from his own self; If there were no devil, no wicked men to trouble, yet such is the Unbelief and the Discontents that are apt to rise in a Godly man, that he would be a Trouble, an Enemy, yea, a Devil to himself: Doth not David often speak of the frettings and heating that his heart was in, and who put him into it: What made his Soul like a Foaming Sea? Was it not his own diffidence, his own froward heart; Austin cried once, Libera me Domine, a meipso tanquam maximo host, which holds true, not only in a sinful way but in a troubling way: Oh how many times doth a Christian raise up his own Fears, his own Jealousies, and his own Doubts; So that as the Linen breedeth the Moth that corrupteth and destroyeth it, as the Tree the worm that eats it; Thus from a mans own heart arise such troublesome Thoughts, and Cares, and Fears, that he may be called a Mager Missabib, Fear round about him: We see then in how many particulars God is pleased to make this World ⟨p. 287⟩a troublesome Place to us while we live and continue in it, and also a very dangerous place; That we should as much fear to be in it as in Sodom, when Fire and Brimstone was ready to fall down from Heaven to consume it,

¹Lastly, A mans Trouble doth arise from his own self; If there were no devil, no wicked men to trouble, yet such is the Unbelief and the Discontents that are apt to rise in a Godly man, that he would be a Trouble, an Enemy, yea, a Devil to himself: Doth not David often speak of the frettings and heating that his heart was in, and who put him into it: What made his Soul like a Foaming Sea? Was it not his own diffidence, his own froward heart; Austin cried once, Libera me Domine, a meipso tanquam maximo hoste, which holds true, not onely in a sinfull way but in a troubling way: Oh how many times doth a Christian raise up his own Fears, his own Jealousies, and his own Doubts; So that as the Linnen breedeth the Moth that corrupteth and destroyeth it, as the Tree the worm that eats it; Thus from a mans own heart arise such troublesome Thoughts, and Cares, and Fears, that he may be called a Mager Missabib, Fear round about him: We see then in how many particulars God is pleased to make this World ⟨p. 287⟩