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

They could bless God for these things which for a little time did minister refreshment to them, but they knew them to be transitory enjoyments, things that would make to themselves wings and flee away, if their enemies had not touched them; but the substance laid up for them in Heaven, that was an enduring substance; So far as those earthly things might further them towards Heavenly things, so far they prized and ⟨p. 89⟩valued them, but if Satan would turn them into snares and temptations to deprive them of their better substance in Heaven, they could easily slight them, and take the spoiling of them joyfully. In a stress of weather when the Ship is ready to sink and founder in a Storm, all hands are readily employed to throw the richest goods over-board: No man faith it's pity to cast them away, but reason dictates to a man in that case, better these perish, than I perish with and for them. These be the wares that some will not cast overboard, and therefore they are said to drown men in perdition. 1 Tim. 6. 9. Demas would rather perish than part with these things. 2. Tim. 4. 10. But Reader, consider seriously what comfort they can yield thee, when thou must look upon them as the price for which thou hast sold Heaven, and all the hopes of glory; even as much as the price of blood yielded Judas; and so they will ensnare thee if thy unmortified heart be overheated with the love of them as his was.

They could bless God for these things which for a little time did minister refreshment to them, but they knew them to be transitory enjoyments, things that would make to themselves wings and flee away, if their enemies had not toucht them; but the substance laid up for them in Heaven, that was an enduring substance; So far as those earthly things might further them towards Heavenly things, so far they prized and ⟨p. 89⟩valued them, but if Satan would turn them into snares and temptations to deprive them of their better substance in Heaven, they could easily slight them, and take the spoiling of them joyfully. In a stress of weather when the Ship is ready to sink and founder in a Storm, all hands are readily imployed to throw the richest goods over-board: No man faith it's pity to cast them away, but reason dictates to a man in that case, better these perish, than I perish with and for them. These be the wares that some will not cast overboard, and therefore they are said to drown men in perdition.