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

IF Gods people have no concernment in these things, why are they called upon in this Text, to run into their chambers, hide themselves, and shut their doors, till the indignation be overpast? Certainly though God hath better provided for them than others, yet they are two ways concerned in these cases as much as others. Viz. Account. 1. Upon a Political 2. Upon a Religious

1. Upon a Political account, as they are members of the community, and so are equally concerned in the good or evil that befall the Nation in which they live, their Cabins must follow the fate of the Ship in which they Sail, their Lives, Liberties, Estates, and Interest sink and swim with the public. The good figs were carried away with the bad, Jer. 24. 5. In these outward respects it often times bears as hard upon the righteous as upon the wicked. Ezek▪ 21. 3. I will draw forth my sword out of his Sheath and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked. ⟨p. 151⟩In these outward respects as it is with the good, so with the sinner, Eccles. 9. 2. The same fire that burns the dry tree, oftentimes burns the green tree too. Ezek. 20. 47. Gr•ce is above all hazards, but creature enjoyments and comforts are not. The sins of the Sodomites involve not only their own houses and estates, but Lots also, in the ruin and overthrow; wicked men often fare the better for the company of the godly, and the godly often fare the worse for the company of the wicked.

1. Upon a Political account, as they are members of the community, and so are equally concerned in the good or evil that befal the Nation in which they live, their Cabbins must follow the fate of the Ship in which they Sail, their Lives, Liberties, Estates, and Interest sink and swim with the publick. The good figs were carried away with the bad,