4. Unbelief leaves our dearest interests and concerns in our own hands, it commits nothing to God, and consequently must needs fill the heart with distracting fears when eminent dangers threaten us. Reader, if this be thy case, thou wilt be a Magor missabib surrounded with terrors, whensoever thou shalt be surrounded with dangers and troubles. Believers in this as well as in many other things have the advantage of thee, that they have committed all that is precious and valuable to them, into the hands of God by Faith, to him they have committed the keeping of their souls, 1 Pet. 4. 19. and all their eternal concernments, 2 Tim. 1. 12. And these being put into safe hands, they are not distracted with fears about other matters of less value, but can trust them where they have entrusted the greater, and enjoy the quietness and peace of a resigned Soul to God, Prov. 16. 3. but as for thee, thy life, thy liberty, yea, which is infinitely more than all these things, thy Soul will lie upon thy hands in the day of trouble, and thou wilt not know what to do with them, nor which way to dispose of them; O these be the dreadful straits and frights that unbelief leaves men in, 'tis a fountain of Fears, and distractions. And indeed it cannot but distract and confound carnal men in whom it reigns and is in its full strength, when sad experience shows us what fears and tremblings the very remains and relicts of this sin begets in the best men, who are not fully freed from it. If the unpurged relicts ⟨p. 40⟩of unbelief in them, can thus darken and cloud their evidences, thus greaten and multiply their dangers, if it can draw such sad and frightful conclusions in their hearts, notwithstanding all the contrary experiences of their lives, as we see in that sad instance, 1 Sam. 27. 1. What panic fears, and unrelieved terrors must it put those men under, where it is in its full strength and dominion.
4. Unbelief leaves our dearest interests and concerns in our own hands, it commits nothing to God, and consequently must needs fill the heart with distracting fears when eminent dangers threaten us. Reader, if this be thy case, thou wilt be a Magor missabib surrounded with terrours, whensoever thou shalt be surrounded with dangers and troubles. Believers in this as well as in many other things have the advantage of thee, that they have committed all that is precious and valuable to them, into the hands of God by Faith, to him they have committed the keeping of their souls, 1 Pet. 4. 19. and all their eternal concernments, 2 Tim. 1. 12. And these being put into safe hands, they are not distracted with fears about other matters of less value, but can trust them where they have intrusted the greater, and enjoy the quietness and peace of a resigned Soul to God, Prov. 16. 3. but as for thee, thy life, thy liberty, yea, which is infinitely more than all these things, thy Soul will lie upon thy hands in the day of trouble, and thou wilt not know what to do with them, nor which way to dispose of them; O these be the dreadful streights and frights that unbelief leaves men in, 'tis a fountain of Fears, and distractions. And indeed it cannot but distract and confound carnal men in whom it reigns and is in its full strength, when sad experience shews us what fears and tremblings the very remains and relicts of this sin begets in the best men, who are not fully freed from it. If the unpurged relicts ⟨p. 40⟩of unbelief in them, can thus darken and cloud their evidences, thus greaten and multiply their dangers, if it can draw such sad and frightful conclusions in their hearts, notwithstanding all the contrary experiences of their lives, as we see in that sad instance, 1 Sam. 27. 1. What panick fears, and unrelieved terrors must it put those men under, where it is in its full strength and dominion.
