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SERM.
XXXII.
OR
$EMÉDIES
AGAINST FEAR.
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run
to them as my
sure
refuge
in
every season
of'
danger
and
conflict,
and'
be
animated
to
confront a
sinful world.
Give
me,
O
my
God,
give me
the
spirit
of
prayer;
and let
me
keep ever
near
to
the throne
of
grace,
that
my soul may
not
come
thither
as
a
stranger, but
that
in
every
surprize
I
may address
thee
as a
God 'near
at
hand,
and
that
in
the name
of
my
great
High-
priest,
Jesus the
Son
of
God,
I
may find
grace ready
to
help
me in
the
time
Of
need.
Wean
me, O
Lord,
'from,
all the
delights
and
hopes
of
flesh
and
sense
!
Mortify
me to
all the honours
and the
joys
of
a
perishing
life,
and
a vain world.
Arm
mysoul
all over with'a religious hardiness,
that
I
may
venture in-
to the
field
of
battle,
and
may scarce
feel
the
wounds
which
I
receive in thy cause.
Give
me
the happy
skill
of
diverting
my
fears, when
I
cannot at
once subdue them, 'and lead
me
into
proper
employments
of
my
heart
and hand for this
purpose.
I
would live
as
under
the
eye
of
God.
I
would
take
notice
of
his
hand
in
all the affairs
of
life,
and
all
the
dangers
that
attend
me.
I
would
learn
of
Moses to
en-
dure
the
fight
of
afflictions, as
seeing
him
who
is
invisi-
ble.
Let
me
hear
thy.
voice,
O
Jesus,
my
Saviour,
let
nie
hear
thy voice
walking
upon the waters;
when
I
aril
tossed
about
upon the
waves'
of
distress
and
difficulty;
speak
to my soul,
and
say,
It
is.
I,
be
not
afraid."
Surely
I
have had some
experience
of
the Divine
Pre-
sence with me
in
the midst
of
dangers
:
God
has some
-
tiines
disappointed
all
my
fears,
and interposed his
shield
of
power and
love
for
my
defence
:
Why should
not
I
trust
a faithful
God, and
that
infinite goodness
which
I
have
alreadytasted of
?
I
charge
my
conscience with the
authority
of
thy word.
O
Lord, when thou
forbiddest
all
my sinful
fears,
I
would
renounce
them
too,
I
would
'struggle to break these
painful fetters, and
fight
against
this
inward slavery
of
the
soul,
these domestic
tyrants.
O
that
the
spirit
of
power were
always with
me,
to
dispel the
spirit
of
bon-
dage.
I
would be
bravely
prepared
for
the worst
of
suffer-
ings,
to which
my
circumstances
in
this
life
may
expose
nie.
I
would
be.
ready to meet
contempt and
scandal,
poverty,
sickness,
and death
itself.
Jesus
can
support
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