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

2. Resignation to God necessarily implies our renunciation, and disclaiming of all other refuges. Ashur shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ye are our Gods, for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy, Hos. 14. 3. He that relies upon God, must cease from Man; resignation to God excludes not the use of lawful means, but it doth exclude dependence upon them.

3. Resignation to God is always grounded upon an interest in God, we have no warrant, nor encouragement to expect protection from him in trouble, except we can come to him as Children to a Father: It is the filial relation that gives encouragement to this fiducial resignation, and the clearer that relation and interest is, the more bold and confident those acts of Faith will be, Psal. 86. 2. Preserve my soul, for I am holy, O thou my God save thy servant that trusteth in thee. And again, Psal. 119. 94. I am thine, save me. I speak not here of the first act ⟨p. 278⟩of Faith, which flows not from an interest; but gives the Soul an interest in God. Nor do I say that poor doubting and timorous Believers whose interest in him is dark and dubious, have no warrant to resign themselves and their concernments into his hands, for it is both their right and duty to do it: But certainly the clearer our interest is, the more facile and comfortable will those acts be.

4. The committing acts of Faith imply a full acknowledgement and owning of Gods power to protect us, be the danger never so imminent,