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

3. The glory and Honour of his Name may assure us of his Faithfulness in making good the Promises, and all that good which is in the promises to a tittle; for wherever you find a Promise of God, you also find the Name and Honour of God given as security for the performance of it; and so his name hath ever been pleaded with him by his people, as a mighty argument to work for them, Joshua 7. 9. What wilt thou do to thy great name? q. d. Lord thine Honour is a thousand times more than our lives, it is no such great matter what becomes of us; but ah Lord it is of infinite concernment that the glory of thy Name be secured, and thy faithfulness kept pure and unspotted in the world. So again, Exod. 32. 11, 12. And ⟨p. 208⟩Moses besought the Lord his God, and said, Lord why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, with great power, and with a mighty hand? Wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say, for mischief did he bring them out to •lay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people, q. d. It will be sad enough for the hands of the Egyptians to •all upon thy people, but infinitely worse for the tongues of the Egyptians to fall upon thy Name.

3. The glory and Honour of his Name may assure us of his Faithfulness in making good the Promises, and all that good which is in the promises to a tittle; for wherever you find a Promise of God, you also find the Name and Honour of God given as security for the performance of it; and so his name hath ever been pleaded with him by his people, as a mighty argument to work for them, Ioshuah 7. 9. What wilt thou do to thy great name? q. d. Lord thine Honour is a thousand times more than our lives, it is no such great matter what becomes of us; but ah Lord it is of infinite concernment that the glory of thy Name be secured, and thy faithfulness kept pure and unspotted in the world. So again, Exod. 32. 11, 12. And ⟨p. 208⟩Moses besought the Lord his God, and said, Lord why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, with great power, and with a mighty hand? Wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say, for mifchief did he bring them out to lay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people, q. d. It will be sad enough for the hands of the Egyptians to all upon thy people, but infinitely worse for the tongues of the Egyptians to fall upon thy Name.