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

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, Psal. 102. 10. Yet still it is your duty, and will be your great privilege in the midst of all these changes, to act your faith upon the never changing God, as that holy man did, Hab. 3. 17. Although the Fig-tree shall not blossom, neither fruit be in the vine; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flocks shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls; yet will I rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. q. d. Suppose a thousand disappointments of my earthly hopes, yet will I maintain my hope in God. O Christian, with how many yets, notwithstandings, and neverthelesses, must thy faith bear up in times of trouble, or thou'l sink?

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 conforts, 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, Psal. 102. 10. Yet still it is your duty, and will be your great priviledge in the midst of all these changes, to act your faith upon the never changing God, as that holy man did, Hab. 3. 17. Although the Fig-tree shall not blossom, neither fruit be in the vine; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flocks shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls; yet will I rejoyce in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. q. d. Suppose a thousand disappointments of my earthly hopes, yet will I maintain my hope in God. O Christian, with how many yets, notwithstandings, and neverthelesses, must thy faith bear up in times of trouble, or thou'l sink?