170 1°3ireE1ionsforgettingand keepin7 not what it is that you delire : It were to defireyour own undoing. Only fee that you apprehend not your danger to be greater then it is ; nor fo appre- hend it as to increafe it by driving you from Chrift, but as to prevent it by driving you to him. Entertain not fancies and dreams ofdanger inftead of right apprehenlions. Apprehend your happi- nefs andgrounds of hope and comfort, and fafety in Chrift, and let theft quite exceed your apprehen- lions of the danger. Look not on it as a remedi- lefs danger, or as greater then the remedy. Do not conclude that you fhall peril% in it, and it will fwal- low you up : But only let it make you hold faft on Christ, and keep clofe to him in obedience. Shall I lay open all the matter expreffed in this fec`l'ion, by a familiar comparifon ? AKing having many Subjeas and Sons, which are all beyond Sea, or beyond form.. River, they muff needs be brought over to him before they can live or reign with him. The River is frozen over at the fides till it come almoff to the middle. The foolifhchildren are all playing on the Ice, where a deceiving enemy enticeth them to play on till they come to the deep, where they drop in oneby one and perifh. The eldeil Son, who is with the Fa- ther on the other fide, undertaketh to caft hiru- felfinto the water, and fwim to the further fide, and break the Ice, and Twill back with them all that will come with him and hold by him. The Father bids him, Bring all mySubjects with you, if they will come and holdbyyou ; biet be lure you fail not to bring my Sons. This is refolvcd on ; The Prince cafteth himfelf in the water, and fwimmeth to the Erther
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