The heads of some sermons preached at Finnick, the 17 of August. 1662 By…

The Fourth Reason is, because his People too soon yield to this fear: ye think in no case ye do it without reason. Yea but ye are bound to shut-out those things, when they come-in upon you. When slavish fear begins to mutter in our bosom for harbouring, it makes it prevail.

The Fourth Reason is, because his People too soon yeeld to this fear: ye think in no case ye do it without reason. Yea but ye are bound to shut-out those things, when they come-in upon you. When slavish fear begins to mutter in our bosom for harbouring, it makes it prevail.

The Third thing is the prejudice of a slavish fear. 1. It weakens the hands of his People in all duties; for when they begin to fear out of measure, they lose all, and grow indifferent whether they do duty or not. No man will bide by his duty, when his faith faileth him; & if he go about any duty, it will be but as a rat-rime, like the Papists, when they tell their beads. The second prejudice is discouragement of soul: nothing can comfort the People of God, where this prevails. The third is the discomposure of their countenance, to the prejudice of Religion: whenever it gets upper-hand, it makes them look as if they served an hard Master, who puts his People to undergo such things as he will not allow expense for. The Fourth is, it disobliges God to work for their out-gate and deliverance from it, as it's said, he could do no mighty works, because of their unbelief. 5. It puts them in an uncapacity to understand their own mercy, when it begins to appear. This slavish fear made them in Egypt that they could not understand what Moses said touching their deliverance from it. And when they are in such a case of slavish fear, all duty is a burden to them: it is better for them to bear the stone-barrow than for them to go-about duty that may tend to their out-gate. And sixthly, Whatever God may do to his People in his Sovereignty and Mercy, the man, that is under slavish fear, has not a promise in the Bible to look to that God will help him in such a case, Jac. 1: I— let not ⟨p. 19⟩