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XXXIt.3
OR
REMEDIES AGAINST FEAR.
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you
may have some
suitable
word
of
refuge
and support.
From
the
xl.
to
the
xlv.
chapter
of
Isaiah, there
is
a
va-
riety
of rich encouragements against
slavish
fear
:
And
there
is
another treasure
of
them from the
1.
to
the
Iv.
Many
a christian
has
been able
to live
upon
them,
in
the
-most
dangerous and distressing
seasons.
They are divine
springs
of
courage,
and
they
overflow
with
consolation.
The
assurances
of
holy
David
in
the midst
of
his
perils,
have been
a
glorious
support
to the
fearful
soul. Seve-
ral
of
his
psalms
are
filled
with
the same heavenly
cor-
dials.
You can hardly
find
three
of
them
together,
without
some
triumphs
of
faith
in
them.
In
the
writings
of
the evangelists,
and
in
the
epistles, you may
read
many
precious
promises
scattered abroad, to
allay
your
fears.
In
the second
and third chapters of the Revelation, they
stand thick
as
the
spangles
of
heaven
:
They sparkle
like
stars
in the
firmament
at
midnight,
and
they
ever shine
brightest
in
the
darkest
sky.
It
is
with
unknown
pleasure
that
the soul
of
a
christian contemplates
and surveys
those
heavenly lights in
his
most gloomy
and
dismal
hours,' and
they turn the
shadows
of
death into morning.
Though
it
is
of
excellent
use, to
have the
mind
and
memory well
stored
with the various
promises
of
the
co-
venant,
-yet
in
some special seasons
of
trial,
it
is
of
emi-
nent
advantage
to
keep the mind and
thoughts
fixed
upon
some single promise,
that
is
most suited
to
the
present
danger
or
suffering; and
to the
present
taste and relish
of
the
soul,
In
such
a
season,
the
running
speedily
from one promise
to
another,
and
skimming over
them
with
a
slight survey,
will
not
be so
effectual a
relief, as
fixing
upon
some
peculiar and
proper
word
of
grace,
and
living
upon
it
for
a
whole
day together.
Thus
every
morning
you may
take
some new
comforter
with you,
and
let
it
abide
upon your
heart
all
day,
and it
will
whisper to
your soul
with divine sweetness in the
dark and solitary
watches
of
the night.
'When
some
special
terror
pos-
sesses
your thoughts,
and
the heavy
oppression
returns
often upon your spirits,
or
when
any
fresh assault
comes
on
you
from
without
or within,
fly
to the word you
have
hoses for your refuge
;
repeat
it often,
and
cleave to
it
by
meditation.
The
oratne
of
the
Lord
is
a
strong
tower
.
Ore
righteous
runnetlt
into
it,
and
is
safe;
Prov.
xviii.
IQ.
Andjemember God
has
magnified his'own word
above all