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HOLY
TOlITlTt'At,
{SEAM. XXX1t.
gled
with
our
flesh
and
blood,
and therefore
we
must
em-
ploy even
our
flesh
and
blood in some
better
business,
that
we
may
turn
the
current of
animal
nature, and
leave
the imagination
no
leisure
to sit
brooding over its
own
terrors. Want
of
occupation and engagement
of
the
powers
of nature,
exposes the mind
of
man
to
the inroad
of
all
the frightful
images,
that
fancy can
furnish
out,
and
to all
the terrifying suggestions
of
a
watchful and ma-
licious
tempter.
That
wicked
spirit
has some
strange
and unknown
methods
of
access to
our
souls
:
He
will
worry the
sheep
of Christ
with
terrors,
when
he is
not
suf-
fered to devour or destroy
them
;
and
an
unbusied
mind
is
prepared
to
admit
his
worst temptations.
But
while
I
am pressing you
to find
out
some
employ-
ment
for
yourselves,
take care
that
it
be such
as
may
ap-
prove itself
to
God
and your
own
consciences.
We must
be ever found
in the
way
of
duty,
as
I
hinted before,
if
we
would
support
a
holy courage.
It
is
only
the
righteous
that
has
just
reason to
be
bold
as a
lion
:
Be
ready
to
meet
Christ
the
Judge, and
his
glorious
appearance at all
times,
and then you need
net
fear
all
that
earth or hell
can do against you.
[If
this sermon
be
too
long,
it
may
be divided here.]
Let
us
proceed
now to
propose
some
further
remedies
against
this slavish
passion
of
fear.
VI. Keep your
eye fixed
on the
hand
of
God
in all
the
affairs
of
men, View his
powerful
and
over
-
ruling
providence
in all
things, even
in
those things
that
awaken
your most
troublesome
fears.
Think
with yourselves,
that
you
put
creatures
in
the place
of God,
if
you
fear
them more
than God,
as
though they
were
the
sovereign
lords and
disposers
of
all
your
comforts.
Learn
to see
God
in all things,
and behold
him in all things
as
your
God,
and then
creatures
will
have
but
little
influence to
awaken any
of
the passions
of
the
.
soul,
or
to
raise
dis-
tressing fears within
you.
Are your spirits
so
weak,
that thunder
and
lightning,
and the storms of the
air
affright you
?
Think
who
it
is
that
commands the tempests
to
arise, and
quashes-
the
storms
at
his
pleasure.
In
whose
hand
is
the
thunder
?
Who
kindles the lightning
Who
directs the
flashes,
and
ggides every sweeping blast of
wind
or
fire
to
its,
ap-