368 Chap. 28. An Expofition upon the Book of JO B. Verf. 2$0 thing can be laid worfeof them then they are. Therefore Mofes rebukes their cowardife and difirufi (v. r 3. ) Fearye not,ßand jlill, behold thefalvation of the Lord; as it he had faid,for flume be not thus afraid , did God but 'cocher day deliver you out of the hand of Pharoah and his Egyptians, by working ten wonders, yea miracles,and can ye not beleive that he will (if needbe)work one more to keep you out of their hands ? Such alto was the fear which King Abaz wasarreffed with,upon the report of an hoffile invafion intended again(} him (Ifa. r1, 2.) It was told the hoofs ofDavid, laying-, Syria is confederateWith Ephraim ; andhis heart was moved, and the heartsofhi.s-people were (haken as the trees of the weed are moved with the wind : Therefore theLord difpatched theProphet to him with this meflage ; ÿo, matt Abat, and fay untohim, beHilland be quiet, fear not; away With this tear, it is finful. Such allo was the fear of theDifciples (04;012.8.26.) as loon as the form was up, their feares were up, and they were in as much hazzard of being over-fee with their own boifferous pallions, as the vetfel was with the winder. They forgot that the LordHigh Admiral of all the Ocean, and Commander of chore winder, was aboard theShip. For though they applyed to Cbrill: tokeep them from finking, yet their faith was much funk, as his snfwer imports ; Firfl,rebuking their feares, and then the winds, whyare yefearful, Oye oflittle faith: thus he rebuked the tem- peft within, and then the tempel} without; fir((, hecaltn'd their hearts, and then the Sea. The leffe acquaintance any have with God, the moreacquaintance they have with this fear, and the bondage of ir. And the Heathen, who were altogether ignorant ofGod in Chri +, were fo deeplyaffeeted,yea tormented with it, that, as tome of the Ancientsenform us, they worshipped it as a God. This fear is fo far from being our wifdom, that it is our folly, our shameand fin. Yet Thirdly, There is a fear more foolifh and finful then this, called luperflitious fear. If a Hart crofs their way, if a moult gnaw their cloaths, if the fait at table fall towards them, if they bleed three drops at the note, they account there ominous prefa- gesof force fad difafter, and fo are miferably diicompofed with feares of it.Yee thti reis a very vain and wicked humor in force to know their own(asthey term it)í`ortunes ; and therefore not -ell- ing in the will of God concerning thetufelves in his p:ovidences and
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