[ 1741] The experimental Christian, the un∣daunted Christian.
HE that hath been at Sea and often escaped the many dangers of wind and weather (even then when both conspired to make a wrack of himself and the ship he went in) is the more bolder and readier to entertain a ••ew Voy∣age;* 1.1 And why? because he hath by the assistance of his God, made way for de∣liverance in times of such eminent danger; such an experimentall, bold, Logical Christian was David, when he made a Lyon his Major, a Bear his Minor, He that delivered me from the Lion and the Bear, will also deliver me from this uncir∣cumcised Philistine. 1 Sam. 17. 34. And such are all good Christians upon whom the Cross hath layen the heaviest, upon whose shoulders the persecuting plowers have made the deepest furrows, whose feet have been often in the stocks, and into whose Sculs the Irons have made a deep impression, they having had from time to time the experience of Gods deliverance from, and assistance in the time of their trouble, are as bold as Lyons, and ready to meet death in the face, though it come in the most gastly figure or shape that may be con∣ceived.