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

3. Righteousness in doing, and meekness in suffering the will of God, is another mark or note, distinguishing and describing those persons whom God will preserve in the evil day. You have both these together, in Zeph. 2. 3. Seek ye the Lord, all ye the meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgments, seek righteousness, seek meekness, it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lords anger. The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their Prayers, 1 Pet. 3. 12. If righteousness bring you into danger, the righteous God ⟨p. 285⟩will take care of you in that danger, and bring you out of it. O 'tis a singular comfort, when a man can say, it was not my sin, but my duty, that brought me into trouble; this affliction met me in the path and way of my duty; 'tis for thy sake, O Lord, that I am in trouble: as the Martyr that held up the Bible at the stake, saying, This hath brought me hither.

To conclude, Manage all your Sufferings for Christ, with Christian meekness; as righteousness must bring you into them, so meekness must carry you through them: if you avenge your selves, you take the cause out of God's hand, into your own, but the meek Christian leaves it to the Lord; and shall never have cause to repent of his so doing. If thou have an upright heart with God, a tender and mournful heart for sin, and thou suffer with meekness, for righteousness sake, thou art one of these souls to whom that sweet Voice is directed in my Text,

Come, my People, enter thou into thy Chambers, and shut thy doors about thee; hide thy self, as it were, for a little moment, until the indignation be over-past.