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SEAM. XXiCIL3
OR
REMEDIES AGAINST
FEAR.
2`i
Lordis
good
:-
Blessed
is
the man
that
trusteth
in him,
""
Ps.
xxxiv.
4
-8.
In
the
day when
I
Cried,
thou
an-
sweredst
me
:
and
didst strengthen the
with
strength
in My
soul.
Ps.
cxxxviii.
3.
IV
Get
a
greater
degree
of
weanedness
from the
flesh,"
and from
all
-the
delights and satisfactions
that
belong to
this
mortal
life
Then
as you
will
not
feel so
great
a
pain'
in being
stripped
of
them,
so
neither
will
your
soul be
filled with
terror,
when you
are
in-
danger
of
losing them.
Learn
to
put
off
little of
that
sinful
tenderness for
self,
which
we
brought
into
the world
with us.
One
'of
the
first
lessons in
the
school
of
Christ.
is
self-
denial
;
Mat.
xvi. 24.
"
If
any man
will
come
after
me,
that
is,
be
my disciple;
let
him deny
himself,
and
take up his cross,
and
follow me."
It
is
a
certain tender
fondness for
our
flesh
that
makes
us
afraid
of
pain.
It
is
a
fondness for our name
and re-
putation that
makes
us
afraid
of
reproaches.
It
is
a
fondness
for our
possessions,
and
our
easy
circumstanced
in the world,'
that
makes
us
afraid
of
poverty
:
And
too
great a
fondness for
life
makes
us
afraid
of
dying.
When-1
soever therefore the cause
of Christ
plainly calls
us
to
risk
oui
name and
honour
in
the
world, to
part
with
our
wealth
or
our
ease,
and
to
venture
to expose
life
itself,
we
shrink from the
command;
slavish
and sinful
fear
prevails mightily upon
us,
because
we
love
earth;
and
self,
and
flesh
better
than
we'
ought
to do.
We must
subdue
this
self
-love,
and unmanly
softness,
if
we
would
approve
ourselves as good soldiers
of Jesus
Christ, and
gain
a spirit
of
sacred courage and resolution,
We must
be
dead
to
the things
of
flesh
and
sense,
.
and
gain
a
vie
tory over the
-
complaints and groanings
of
nature.
We.
must
gò
as
far
as
we
can
toward
parting
with
right hands,
and right
eyes,
in
every sense
of the
words,
if
we
would
be
christians
indeed.
V.
Endeavour
to
keep yourselves
always employed
i`i7t
some
proper
work,
that
your fears
may
be diverted when
they cannot immediately
be overcome.
If
our
thoughts
and hands are
idle'
and
empty,
;we
lie open to the irrva-
sion
and
tumult
of
our
fears,
and
we
give
then
leave to
assault
us on all
sides'.
The
passion
and
principle
of
this
slavish fear,
is
mind