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

1. Assurance satisfies a man that his treasure and true happiness is secured to him, and laid out of the reach of all his enemies; and so long as that is safe, he hath all the reason in the world to be quiet, and cheerful, I know (saith Paul) whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that day, 2 Tim. 1. 12. And he gives this as the reason why he was not ashamed of Christs sufferings.

1. Assurance satisfies a man that his treasure and true happiness is secured to him, and laid out of the reach of all his enemies; and so long as that is safe, he hath all the reason in the world to be quiet, and chearful, I know (saith Paul) whom I have believed, and am perswaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that day, 2 Tim. 1. 12. And he gives this as the reason why he was not ashamed of Christs sufferings.

2. The assured Christian knows that if death it self come, (which is the worst men can inflict) […] shall be no loser by the exchange; nay he shall […] the best bargain that ever he made since he […] parted with all in his afflictions, to follow Christ There are two rich bargains a Christian makes; […] is whe• he exchanges the world for Christ in his ••rst choice at his conversion, in point of love and stimation: the other is when he actually parts wit•'he world for Christ at his dissolution: both th•e are rich bargains, and upon this ground it wa••the Apostle said, To me to live is Christ, and to die is ••ain, Phil. 1. 21. The death of a believer in Chr••, is gain unspeakable, but if a man would ma the utmost gain by dying, he shall find it in dying for Christ, as well as in Christ: And to show you wherein the gain of such a death lies, let a few particul be weighed, wherein the gain will be cast up in bh; he that is assured he dies in Christ, knows,