Two treatises the first of fear, from Isa. 8, v. 12, 13, and part…

Moreover, we shall find many of our Fears raised and provoked in us by the Promiscuous administrations of providence in this world, when we read in Scripture, That There is one••vent to the righteous and to the wicked, and all things come alike to all, Eccles. 9. 2. That when the sword is drawn, God suffers it to cut off the righteous and the wicked, Ezek. 21. 3. The Sword makes no difference, where God hath made so great a difference by grace, it neither distinguishes faces, nor breasts, but is as soon sheathed in the bowels of the best, as of the worst of men; when we read how the same fire of Gods indignation, devours the green tree and the dry tree, Ezek. 20. 47. How the basket of good figs (the Emblem of the best men of those times) were carried into Babylon as well as the bad, Jer. 24. 5. How the flesh of Gods Saints hath been given for meat to the fowls of heaven, and to the beasts of the field, Psal. 97. 12. and how the wicked have devoured the man that is more righteous than himself as it is Habak. 1. 13. I say when we observe such things in Scripture, and find our observations confirmed by the accounts and histories of former and later ages, when we reflect upon the unspeakable miseries and butcheries of those plain hearted and precious servants of Christ, the Albigenses and Waldenses, how they fell as a prey to ⟨p. 41⟩their cruel adversaries notwithstanding the convincing simplicity and holiness of their lives, and all their fervent cries, and appeals to God, how the very flower of the reformed Protestant interest in France was cut off with more than barbarous inhumanity, so that the Streets were washed, and the Canals of Paris ran with their precious blood.

Moreover, we shall find many of our Fears raised and provoked in us by the Promiscuous administrations of providence in this world, when we read in Scripture, That There is onevent to the righteous and to the wicked, and all things come alike to all,