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Exploring the story of Noah and the ark, Obadiah Sedgwick discusses the nature of fear and hope, which he sets up as represented by the flood and the ark respectively. Sedgwick explains that when trials come, it is normal to be moved with fear—but in preparation for a flood, it is necessary to build an ark. He argues that we must fear enough to take action, but have hope enough not to despair.

2. The manner how he tooke it: the Text saith, 1. By faith: Faith is the first hand to take a mercy, and the first eye to discover a Judgement: Sense may apprehend Dangers, when Acting upon the visible Stage, but faith onely espies them, when contriving upon the private anvile. 2. By Fear: when faith seeth a good God, then it causeth joy: when it seeth an Angry God, then it raiseth fear: it proportions out all our affections, as God is pleased to proportion out himself: I see an inundation threatned,
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