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mercy_n	hear_v	lord_n	son_n	6,467	5	5.9464	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10081	Ianitor animæ: the soules porter to cast out sinne, and to keepe out sinne. A treatise of the feare of God. Written by William Price, Batchelour of Divinitie, and vicar of Brigstocke in Northamptonshire.	Price, William, d. 1666.	1638 (1638)	STC 20335; ESTC S113693	54,780	288

the presence of God As David set God alwayes afore his eyes Psal 16.8 Psal 139.2.4 7.8.9 Thou knowest sayth hee my thoughts afarre off there is not a word of my tongue but thou knowest it altogether Whither shall I flye from thy presence Feare quickens the memory Nothing more dwelles in our thoughts than that person or thing that wee most love or feare He that fears God alwayes sees him who is invisible He conceives that God is alwayes present Heb. 11.29 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sic semper deum presentem intelligit ac si in sua essentra viderat Ber. form bon vit .. Acts 10.33 Psal 10.4 as if he saw his very essence He sayes especially in solemne conventions and actions as Cornelius did Wee are all present afore God But hee in whose thoughts God is non-resident hee is as farre from the feare of God as the thought of God 8. Hee that feares God hath a quicke eye to discerne when God is displeased and he is grieved at heart when Gods honour is im peached either by himselfe or others Hee grieves for his owne sinnes and Ephraim bemoaned himselfe After I was instructed Ier. 31.18 19. I smote upon my thigh I was ashamed yea even confounded And as David cried out in the bitternesse of his heart Against thee against thee onely have I sinned Psal 51.4 Hee had sinned against Vriah against Bathsheba against Israel but he is most sensible of his offending of God Againe he that feares God grieves when others are injurious to Gods glory Psal 119.136 vers 53. Rivers of waters sayth David runne down mine eyes because men keep not thy lawes Horror hath taken hold upon mee because the wicked have forsaken thy lawes Hee that feares God will tremble to heare another ly and sweare and curse and provoke God But he that is neither moved with his owne nor with other mens sins but makes the one his pride and the other his mirth how can the feare of God dwell in that man 9. Hee that feares God will bee carefull for the future to avoyd whatsoever may prove offensive to God And therefore David puts these together Stand in awe Psal 4.4 and sinne not And therefore he saith That the feare of God is cleane Psal 19.9 because it keeps mens hearts and hands cleane The feare of the Lord is to hate evill Pro. 8.13 Pro. 16.6 and by the feare of the Lord men depart from evill sayth Salomon He that feares God feares sin T is part of the description of a good man in Ecclesiastes Eccles 9.2 that hee feares an oath And so I may say of other sins Nay hee feares sinne when time place and opportunity do wooe him to it As Ieseph would not yeeld to his mistresses lust though there was no feare of discovery All his argument was How can I doe this great wickednes Gen. 39.9 and sin against God But hee that passe not how much God bee displeased so hee may please humour and satisfie his owne lust his heart is not possess with the feare of God 10. Hee that feares GOD will study in all things to please God Hee will obey God conscionably and constantly And therefore to feare God and to keepe his commandements Eccles 12.13 are put together by the wise man T is sayd of the Centurion that hee feared God Acts. 10.2 Psal 2.11 and it is added he was a devout man he gave almes hee prayed Serve the Lord with feare sayth David He that serves God feares him and he that feares him will serve him they cannot bee disjoyned If thou makest no conscience of diligent serving of God both in thy general and particular calling and of serving him in that manner that he desires to bee served in never say that thou fearest God Lastly he that feares God will not willingly wrong his neighbour neither in word or deed Doe this sayth Ioseph to his brethren and live Gen 42.18 for I feare God that is I will keepe my promise with you if you performe the condition for I feare God and therefore dare bee no promise-breaker The Hebrew mid-wives would not kil the male-children at the Kings command because sayth the text Exod. 1.17 they feared God And the law of God runnes thus Thou shalt not curse the deafe Leuit. 19 14. nor put a stumbling blocke afore the blinde but thou shalt feare God As if GOD should say If thou feare me thou wilt not offer injury to thy neighbour No not though thou couldest escape unknowne thou wilt not curse him that cannot heare thee nor offend him that cannot see thee to call thee to account for it My predecessors sayth Nehemiah opprest the people Nehem. 5.15 so do not I because I feare God But he that makes no scruple of prejudicing and injuring superiour equall inferiour any that may fall with in his reach he may call himselfe a servant of God and a Christian but as yet the feare of God hath no place in his heart These are more simple and absolute signes of the feare of God considerable in it selfe CHAP. IX Of those signes that put a difference betweene the slavish and the filiall feare of God THE slavish and thes on-like kindly feare of God differ 1. In their severall grounds and principles 1. The slavish feare is awaked onely by threatnings denounced by God against disobedience This moved King Abimelech to restore Sara to Abraham God in a dreame signified to him that if hee restored her not Gen. 20.7 8. hee and all his should dye for it When Ionas had cryed Ionas 3.4.5 Fourty dayes and Niniveh should bee destroyed then they were amazed and fasted and prayed On the otherside the filiall feare of God will be awaked by the meere commandment of God though there were no commination annexed thereunto This Salomon calles Pro. 13.13 fearing the commandement that is fearing not to do what is commanded meerely because it is commanded and fearing to doe what is forbidden because it is forbidden though the commandment were not backed nor seconded with any sanction either of promise or threatning 2. The slavish feare is stirred up onely by judgements inflicted on mens selves or on others Thou O God sayth Asaph didst cause judgement to bee heard from heaven Psal 76.8 then the earth feared whereas filiall feare is excited by the mercy and loving kindnesse of God There is mercy with thee that thou mayest bee feared Psal 130.4 Hosea 3.5 They shall feare the Lord and his goodnesse sayth the Prophet God will not afflict sayth Iob therefore doe men feare him Iob. 37.23.24 What men Certainly not slaves but loving and loyall sonnes 2. Slavish and filiall feare differ in their objects For 1. The object of slavish feare is not sinne but punishment As children feare a Cole onely when it burnes but otherwise be it never so blacke they will delight to handle