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

2. Believe that the Wisdom of God can turn your greatest troubles and fears into the choicest blessings and mercies to you: I know (saith Paul) that this shall turn to my Salvation, Phil. 1. 19. meaning his bonds and sufferings for Christ. Divine wisdom can give you honey out of the carcass of the Lyon, cause you to part with those afflictions, admiring and blessing God for them, which you met with fear and trembling, as suspecting your destruction was imported in them.

2. Believe that the Wisdom of God can turn your greatest troubles and fears into the choicest blessings and mercies to you: I know (saith Paul) that this shall turn to my Salvation, Phil. 1. 19. meaning his bonds and sufferings for Christ. Divine wisdom can give you honey out of the carcase of the Lyon, cause you to part with those afflictions, admiring and blessing God for them, which you met with fear and trembling, as suspecting your destruction was imported in them.

3. In consideration of both these, resign up your selves to the wisdom of God, and lean not to your own understandings; Commit thy way unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established, Prov. 16. 3. When Melanchthon was oppressed with cares and doubts about the distracting affairs of the Church in his time, Luther thus chides him out of his despondency, Desinet Philippus esse rector mundi, do not thou presume to be the Governor of the world; but leave the reins of Government in his hand that made it, and best knows how to rule it: Let God alone to choose thy lot and portion, to order thy condition, and manage all thy affairs, and let thy Soul take its rest in this quiet Chamber of Divine wisdom. But then,

3. In consideration of both these, resign up your selves to the wisdom of God, and lean not to your own understandings; Commit thy way unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established,