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Do not your hearts tremble at that Text, 1 Cor. 1. 26. Not many rich, not many noble? it is enough to make a mans heart to tremble when he hears that of men few are saved, but when salvation is straitened in a more narrow compass, and God saith of such a sort of men but few, this hath more power in it to strike fear: as if a company in a Church should hear that but few of them should go out alive, it would strike fear into all; but when those who sit in the Chancel, shall hear, but few of those that sit in the Chancel shall go out alive, this strikes fear into such who sit there: As Joshua, when search was made for Achan amongst the Tribes, he had cause to fear, but when the Tribe of Judah was taken, of which he was, then much more; but when the family of the Zarhites, then much more: So within the straighter compass God hath said, But few shall be saved; if you be amongst them, you have cause to fear the more, and not ⟨p. 97⟩to take more liberty then others, but to be more diligent then others to make your calling and election sure. Its a terrible speech that Chrysostom hath in his 34. Sermon upon the Hebr. you would think it so if it came from us, it may be you will receive it better from him: the speech is this,¹ I wonder, saith he, if any Governor can be saved. Howsoever conscience may be quiet and still now, yet when it apprehends it self near the giving up account to God, it will speak, it will sting then. It is reported of Philip the third of Spain, although it is said of him, that his life was free from gross evils, yea so as he professed, he would rather lose all his Kingdoms, then offend God knowingly. But being in the agony of death, and considering more thoroughly of his account he was to give to God, fear struck into him, and these words brake from him: Oh, would to God I had never reigned; Oh, that those years I have spent in my Kingdom, I had lived a private life in the Wilderness; Oh, that I had lived a solitary life with ⟨p. 98⟩God, how much more securely should I now have dyed, how much more confidently should I have gone to the Throne of God? what does all my glory profit me, but that I have so much the more torment in my death? This story Cornelius à Lapide hath upon the second of Hosea.