Chap. Z8. e44 expoJtion upon the Boot; of Jo B. Verf. 28. 361 again at the r ith veti-ea be prayeth, Deliver me from the hand of my brother, from thehand ofEfau,for Ifearhim,lefl he will come and /mite me, avd the mother with thechildren. N'Ve find Mofes in a fit of fear upon a like account (Exod,z 14.) He having fought to reconcile the two Ifrdelites that were fallen out, fäying, Why doe p wrongoneanother feting ye are brethren? one of them faid un o him, Who made theea Prince and a fudge over res ? Intendeft thora to kill me as than didfl the eeyptian ? and Mfcsfeared, and faid, furely the thing is known. And prefen:ly he fled upon i-, COL dal ing to abide the danger of that difcovery. Samu;lwas a manemiaent for Gódlinefs and integrity,yet we read chat hewas in ifeir (t Sam. 16.2.), when God bid himgoe and anoynt D:- vid King in the room of Saul, he (tattled at the emploÿmenç, and far i,i1 Saki hear it, he will bill me ; as if he bad faid, fhould I ad- venture upon thisfervice, and anoynt David openly; I (hall en- danger my lire to the wrath of Saul. All there holy men were a- fraid at the appearance of danger, and I fuppofe , finned not in fearing. Seeing we may charitably conclude, that they feared cot fo much (if at all) bccaule they were afraid to dye, as beware they tic-fired to doe yet more fervice fcr God,and his people with their lives. Secondly, There is a fear which is nor only a fruit of (in, bu- finfui fruit. Such is all fear (how great [Dever the danger is) when'tisimmoderate and dillruflful. 'Tis not f;nful to (care danger fo, as toufe lawful meanes to avoid it ; bur 'cis alwayes finful to fear danger, either fo much as fnkes our fpirirs under ir, ormakes us utterly defpair of avoiding ic. Such was the fear of the Ifraelites (Exod. 14. n, tz, a 3.) who though they had been newly delivered cut of Egypt by the nighty band of God, yet when they law Pharaoh behind them, and the red Sea before them,they preCently gave tbemfelves for lo(} and dead, and could neither think nor fpeak of any thing but their graves, nor pre- pariogly (as all, at all times, efpecially an finch times ought) bun defparingly,which non-,in their fenfe,at any time(hcuid (v.1a.) And theyfaid unto t.,l'fes, becaufe therewere, no eaves in Egypt hag thou taken sea away to dye in the wildcrnrfr ? Wherefore haft thou dealt thuswith us, to carry rss forth cut c f Egypt, it had Eger: better fir us to ferric the Egyptians, then to dye an the ivildernefr. 'Molds fo full of unmanly fear, and ungodly infidelity, that no- thing
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