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SÉrNi.'X4[XII.1
OR
REMEDIES AGAINST
FEAR.
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and God
has
sunk
them
at
once into
silence.
Think
how
extreme your danger has
been, when you
have been
perplexed
in
a
wilderness
of
thorns,
and
have seen
no
ways
for
your
escape,
but
the
eye
of
-God
hath found
a
path of
safety for you, a
path which the
eagle's eye
bath
not
seen
:
He
has led you
as
one
that
was.blind,
by
the
way
that
you
knew
not, he
has
made
darkness light be-
fore you,
and crooked
things
straight,.
according to
his
promise,
Is.
xlii.
16.
And
remember
also,
that
sometimes when
the very
evil which you
feared
has fallen
upon
you,
it-has
not
been-half
so
heavy and
painful
as
your fears have
repre-
sented
it,
and
you have
been enabled to
bear that
which
you
'thought
was
intolerable. Remember the years
of
ancient time, and rejoice
in
that God
who has
often
dis-
appdinted
your fears
of
destruction, and
has
out -done
all
your
hopes
in a
way
of
deliverance
"
I
said,
I
am
cut
off
from the
earth;
and shall
go
to the gates
of
the
grave; I reckoned
from
night
till the
morning
that
he
will
cut
me
off
with
pining
sickness;
"from
'day even to
night, he
will
make an end
of
me
:
But
in
love to
my
soul,
O
Lord,
thou
hast
delivered it
from
the
pit
of
cor-
ruption,
-for
thou
hast
cast
all
"my
sins behind
thy
back."
Perhapsyour
own
experience
may
teach
you: to sing
this
song!of.
Hezekiah,
as
it
is
recorded,
Is.
xxxviii.
or
to
join
with
holy David,
and
repeat
his hymns
of
praise.
And thus;
beside
your
own
experiences; you
may review
the
happy experiences
of
the saints
òf
"old,
or
of christians
in
later
times,
and encourage
your faith
in
opposition
to all
your
fears.
VIII.
Charge
your
conscience
solemnly
with
the
-au=
thority
of
the
divine'
command to
suppress
your
fears.
Remember
that
the exercises
of
faith, courage,
Arid
holy
firmness
of
soul,
are duties
as well
as blessings.
Read
how
often the
great God
forbids
his
people to indulge
their
fears,
Is.
xl.
10, 13, 14.
xliii. 1,
5.
xliv.
2,
8.
Fear
not,
is
a command
perpetually
-
repeated; because
God
well
knew
how
prone our feeble
-
natures
are
to be
affrighted
at
'every
appearance
of
danger:: And
-even
when
he calls
his
people
Jacob a
wormim;
and
confesses
the
extreme
weakness
of
their nature
under
that
emblem,
yet
he
insists
ön the
same
precept
still,
"Fear
not thou
W"orrrt
Jaebb,"
Is.
xli.
14.