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

1. When thou shalt see the greatest alterations and changes made by his Providence in the World. What though thou shouldest live to see all things turned upside down, the foundations out of course, all things drawing into a Sea of confusion and trouble? Yet in the midst of those public distractions and distress of Nations: Encourage thou thy self in this, thy God and his love to his people is the same for ever. Psal. 46. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be moved, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea. God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved.

1. When thou shalt see the greatest alterations and changes made by his Providence in the World. What though thou shouldest live to see all things turned upside down, the foundations out of course, all things drawing into a Sea of confusion and trouble? Yet in the midst of those publick distractions and distress of Nations: Encourage thou thy self in this, thy God and his love to his people is the same for ever. Psal. 46. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be moved, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea. God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved.

2. Live by Faith upon Gods unchangeableness under the greatest changes of your own condition in this world: Providence may make great alterations upon all your outward comforts, it may cast you ⟨p. 235⟩down, how dear soever you be to God, from riches into poverty, from health into sickness, from honour into reproach, from liberty into bondage! thou mayest overlive thy comfortable relations, and of a Naomi become a Marah. Thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down, said as good a man as you,