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

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, Psal. 31. 15. My times are in thy hand, deliver me from the hands of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me. q. d. O Lord I am fully satisfied, my life is not at the dispose of mine enemies, 'tis not in their hands, but in thine; all the traps and snares they lay for it shall not shorten one minute of my time, I know thine hand is fully able to protect me, and therefore into thine hands I resign my self, and all I have.