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SERM.
XXXII.]
OR,
REMEDIE*
AGAINST. FEAR.
19
Rom.
i.
16.
for he whom
I
have trusted
in
is
almighty
to
support
me.,
Read
that
most generous and
pathetic
speech
of
his,
Acts
xxi.
13.
when
the.
spirit of prophecy
.
bad foretold
that
Paul
should
be
"
bound
at
Jerusalem,
and delivered captive into the hands
of
the
gentiles
;"
his
friends
and
strangers besought
him
not
to-
go
up
to
that
.city.
Then Paul
answered,
"
What
mean
ye to weep,
and
to
break
mine
heart
?
For
I
am ready,
not to
be
bound
only;
but
also
to die
at Jerusalem
for
the name
of
the
Lord Jesus. I
know, says he,
and
the
Holy
Ghost
is
witness,
that bonds
and
afflictions
wait
for
me,'
but
none
of
these things
move
me,
neither
count
I
my life
dear
to
myself,.
that
I
may
finish my
course
with
ay,
and
the
ministry which I
have received
of
the
Lord Jesus,
to
testify the gospel
of
the grace
of God." Acts
xx.
24.
Now
when
.a.
special occasion
calls us
to the exercise
of
this virtue,
and
to
confess.
Christ
before the
world,
for
us to
be
mealy-mouthed, and
baffled,
and flighted
at
the
countenances
of
men,
this
is
to
forsake the example
of
tl?é.
blessed
apostles, and obey men
rather
than God.
The prophets
and
the
apostles, the
ancient
saints and the
primitive martyrs
have given
us
noble
patterns
of
this
vir-
tue
;
and
why
should our spirits
fail
us,
or
o'ur
lips
trem-
ble,
if
we
are
called to the same glorious confession
?
Is
not
our
religion
divine??
Is
not
the
gospel still
worthy
of
the
same
honour
?
Is not
our
God the
same almighty
?
Is
not
our Redeemer the
same Jesus.
?
And
does
not
a
dy-
ing,
a rising,
and
a.
reigning Saviour deserve the same
homage
of
our
tongues,
and demand the
same
glory
at
nur
hands
?
Yes, surely he
demands
it
of
us,
and
he
deserves,
it in-
finitely
:
And
not
only
his
apostles,
but
his own
example
:teacheth us to
practise this fortitude, both
of
the active
and
the passive
kind.
In
the
Second place then,
behold
this
perfect pattern
of
forti-
tude,
Jesus
the
Son
of God
:
When he
came
into the
world
in
the midst
of
poverty, and made
but
a
mean
figure,
as
the-son
of a
carpenter,
he was
called to
oppose
the
whole
nation
of
the Jews, and the priests
and princes
of
Jerusalem
;
he
was
sent
to
reform the vicious customs
of
a
wicked
and
degenerate
age.
How did
he
stand and
face
danger without
fear
!
When
he
went
into the
tem-
ple, with
what a sacred
zeal
did
be
scourge the buyers
and
c