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

2. As you have seen it actually fulfilling the promises for your preservation, so you may see it making good all the promises in his word for your support in troubles. That is a sweet promise, Psal. 91. 15. I will be with him in trouble: I will deliver him, you have also a very supporting promise in Isa. 41. 10. Fear not thou, for I am with thee: be not dismayed for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee, yea, I will help thee, yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. O, how evidently hath the faithfulness of God shone forth in the performance of his word to you in this respect! you are his witnesses, you would have sunk in the deep waters of trouble if it had not been so. So speaks David, Psal. 73. 26. My heart and my flesh faileth, but God is the strength of my heart; and my portion for ever. Have you not found it so with you as it is in 2 Cor. 12. 10. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. God's strength hath been made perfect in your weakness, by this you have been carried through all your troubles; hitherto hath he helped you.

3. As you have seen it faithfully fulfilling the promises for your preservation, and support; So you have seen it in the direction of your ways. So •uns that promise, Psal. 32. 8. I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way that thou shalt go: I will ⟨p. 213⟩guide thee with mine eye. Certain it is That the way of man is not in himself, Jer. 10. 23