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

6. When their troubles come they will be left alone in the midst of them; these are their burdens, and they alone must bear them. Gods gracious, comfortable supporting presence, is only with his own people,

6. When their troubles come they will be left alone in the midst of them; these are their burthens, and they alone must bear them. Gods gracious, comfortable supporting presence, is only with his own people,

7. If trouble or death come upon them as a storm, they have no Anchor of Hope to drop in the Storm, The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death, Prov. 14. 32. by all which it appears that a Christless person is a most helpless, and shiftless creature in the day of trouble.

2. Consect. Secondly, Hence it follows, That Christians ought not to droop like other men in the day of trouble. A Wicked mans boldness, and a Christians cowardliness in times of affliction, are alike ungrounded and uncomely; Why should thy heart Christian despond and sink at this rate, upon the prospect of approaching troubles? Are there not safe and comfortable Chambers taken up, and provided for thee against that day? Is not the name of the Lord a strong Tower into which thou mayest run and be safe? The heart of a good man, saith Chrysostom, should at all times be like the higher Heavens, serene, tranquil and clear, whatever Thunders and Lightnings, Storms and Tempests, trouble and terrify the lower World. If a man have a good Roof over his head, where he can sit dry and warm, what need he trouble himself, to hear the Winds roar, the Lightnings flash, and the Rains pour down without doors? Why, this is thy privilege, Christian, A man (to wit, the man Christ Jesus) shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest: as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land,