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

He that layeth aside the Rules of Faith, and measures all thing by the rule of his own shallow reason, ⟨p. 111⟩will be his own bugbear; if reason may be permitted to judge all things, and to make its own inferences and conclusions from the aspects and appearances of second causes, your hearts shall have no rest day nor night; this alone will keep you in continual Alarms.

And yet how apt are the best men to measure things by this rule, and to judge of all Gods designs and mysterious providences by it: In other things it is the Judge and Arbiter, and therefore we would make it so here too; and what it concludes and dictates, we are prone to believe, because its dictates are backed and befriended by sense, whence it gathers its intelligence and information. O quam sapiens Argumentatrix sibi videtur ratio humana? How wise and strong do its Arguments and conclusions seem to us, saith Luther. This carnal reason is the thing that puts us into such confusions of mind and thoughts. 'Tis this that,

And yet how apt are the best men to measure things by this rule, and to judge of all Gods designs and mysterious providences by it: In other things it is the Judge and Arbiter, and therefore we would make it so here too; and what it concludes and dictates, we are prone to blieve, because its dictates are backt and befriended by sense, whence it gathers its intelligence and information. O quam sapiens Argumentatrix sibi videtur ratio humana? How wise and strong do its Arguments and conclusions seem to us, saith Luther. This carnal reason is the thing that puts us into such confusions of mind and thoughts. 'Tis this that,

1. Quarrels with the promises, shakes their credit, and our confidence in them,