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

It cannot be said of any man as it is said of Leviathan, Job 41. 33. that he is made without fear, those that have most fortitude, are not without some fears: And when the Church is in the storms of persecution, and almost covered with the waves, the stoutest passengers in it may suffer as much from this boisterous passion within, as from the Storm without; and all for want of throughly believing, or not seasonably remembering, That the Lord High Admiral of all the Ocean, and Commander of all the winds is on board the Ship, to steer and to preserve it in the storm.

It cannot be said of any man as it is said of Leviathan, Iob 41. 33. that he is made without fear, those that have most fortitude, are not without some fears: And when the Church is in the storms of persecution, and almost covered with the waves, the stoutest passengers in it may suffer as much from this boisterous passion within, as from the Storm without; and all for want of throughly believing, or not seasonably remembring, That the Lord High Admiral of all the Ocean, and Commander of all the winds is on board the Ship, to steer and to preserve it in the storm.

A pregnant instance hereof is furnished to our hands in this Context, where you find the best men trembling in expectation of the worst events both on the Church in general, and themselves in particular. Their hearts were moved like the trees of the wood shaken with the wind, Chap. 7. v. 2.

And indeed if their dangers were to be measured by sense only, their fears were not above the value of the cause, yea their dangers seemed to exceed their fears; for it was the invasion of a foreign and cruel enemy, even the Assyrian who were to break in upon them like a breach of the Sea, and overflow the land of Immanuel, v. 7. The Lord bringeth