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SCARCE TRACTS, WITH EXTRjVCTS AND ANALYSES OF 
SCARCE BOOKS. 
It is -proposed in future to devote a few Pages of the Monthly Magazine to th^ 
Insertion of such Scarce Tracts as are of an interesting Nature, with the Use 
of which zee may he favoured by our Correspondents; and under the same Head te 
introduce Analyses of Scarce and Curioifs Books. 
4 Hying Fathers last legacy to an 
Onely Child, or Mr. Hugh Peters^ 
Advice to his Haughtery zoritten a few 
days before his TLxecution. 
(Continued from p. 249) 
20. I add hereunto your case, under 
cros.s providences: yea, such as where 
promises seem to speak one thing, and 
Providence another; under vvhich the 
best saints have had great and strange 
sinkings of spirit; for wdiich you have 
Sibbs, Burroughs, and others to help. 
My poor thougiits also are these for 
case and cure ; wlieii Job faints, Job 4, 5. 
When David chide-) his soul, Psal. 42 
When Heman is even, distracted, Psal. 
88, 15. Jacob will not be comforted, 
Gen. 37 35, and so divers. This great 
dissention springs from either the over¬ 
weening Some comforts we enjoy, our 
overvaluing them breeds much trouble in 
the loss of them: so David with his Ab^ 
salom; or from the surprizall being sud¬ 
den and unexpected; a prison at first 
uncouth, in time easie and sweet; where 
a mortified heart grows suited to it: (to 
this 1 could speak much) ir else it may 
spring from some secret weight God may 
put into this change of Providence, 
which we are not aware of; and so tl^e 
scale grows heavy with some lead hang¬ 
ing at the bottom unseen: a smalt thing 
troubles more than a greater; the for¬ 
mer vve apply to our own strength in it, 
but for the other to God’s. Or, lastly, it 
may spring from the dispensation itself; 
as when the cross is heavy, or multiplyed, 
or of long continuance, or tnucheih some 
noble part; as wounds that touch the 
liver, heart, iuain, &c. Nay, I must tell 
you, when we make our case worse than 
God doth, as by our refusing the Lord’s 
comforts, which Jacob did. Gen. 37, or 
where we let loo->e the reins of passion, 
as David, Oh zny son, my son, S;c. Or 
when we drown all our present enjoy- 
metits in that one cross providence, 
which is too near the spirit of Human, 
who crost by Mordecui, slights all his 
favours at court, and dies .upon the, 
other. 
21. And if you ask me (after all) what 
you shall do with your fears to which 
Mo^’TiiJLY Mao, No. 21^, 
your sex and condition prompt vouyon 
stiall have what I know, though the Lord 
Jesus answers all to his litue ti,>ck woen 
he <^.ciys,fearnot; yea, more pai tictdoriy, 
fear not them that can only kill the body^ 
and destroy that. Yoti uiu^t kimw that 
your question will mainly ly -an )iit base 
and unwarrantable fears, which have 
those roots; either (when out of this fear) 
you are loth to part vrith that the Lord 
would have you let go, or would part with 
that the Lord would have you keep; as 
when you wrangle about some corrupti¬ 
on, especially which is dear unto you, 
and hath some great disadvantage at¬ 
tending your throwing it aw'av. Thesa 
kind o'fears are accompanied with these 
mischiefs. As you will be unwilling to 
know your duty, so you will be unwilling 
to practice it when you know it : yea, 
not only so, hut (through fear) be as un¬ 
able, as unwilling; like that trembling 
king at the hand-writing he saw. The 
inconveniences are very m^ny, and the 
sins not few' that follow it. The cure ia 
general, even for P^ter, who (by it) de- 
nyed his master, is this, that whoever 
fears to sin, never sins by fear : and more 
particularly, the absence ifsoine good you 
desire, or the cornbu^ on of some evil, 
draws out this fear: therefore make 
much of this rule ; be ever possest of 
some good, th.at may answer the taking 
away of what you may lose, which 
is the presence and favour of God in 
Christ: in the night the waking child in 
the cradle is quiet at the nurses coming 
to it, because there is more of comfort in 
the nurse, than fear in the dark. 
22. And if the evil you fear, and a 
day of afrliction come upon you, then my 
counsel is, (bear with the feebleness of it 
in all) take that rule, Hccles. 7, 14 
that evil day, cr day of your distresseSf 
you must con.Sitfer; which is (as the v/ord 
bears) by solemn and diligent thought¬ 
fulness to take things asunder, especially 
sorrows and sins. For the little needle 
will draw a long tail of thread after it; 
little sins may be followed with great sor¬ 
rows, m set you at your work. 
23. Though in pait I have hinted 
something about errors, yet in this atje 
dad juncturej- I need let yoiii know what 
2 T" I kne w. 
