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A60543	A patern of free grace, or, The exceeding riches of the free grace and mercy of God in Christ to believing and repenting sinners by the example of that admirable convert, or rather miraculous mirror of Gods wonderful love and mercy in saving the repenting thief on the cross : wherein is excellently handled the doctrine of true repentance, the exceeding sinfulness of sin, with the desperate danger of final impenitency, with the certainty of Salvation to repenting sinners by Christ / by Samuel Smith.	Smith, Samuel, 1588-1665.	1658 (1658)	Wing S4190; ESTC R25767	152,510	534

the seruile and slauish feare to feare God onely for his iudgements and this is most vsually seene in the wicked It is that sonne-like feare that we here speake of whereby Gods children feare God as a louing and dutifull childe his father not so much for feare of the rodde and punishmēt if he offend as of loue as being fearfull to offend so good and so louing a father Whereas that seruile and slauish feare that is in wicked men lookes onely to the punishment as the gally-slaue to the whip and that many times doth terrifie him as for sinne it selfe it doth no whit trouble him nay as Solomon saith It is a pastime to the foole to do wickedly But may not Gods children abstaine from sinne for feare of Gods wrath Quest 2 and for punishment sake I answer Answ the spirit of bondage and of feare hath its worke in the hearts of all the godly especially at the first when they begin to conuert and to turne vnto God And this is compared to a needle that maketh way for the threed to follow And thus haue the godly at first feared God euen for his iudgements sake as Paul testifieth when he saith Rom. 8.15 Ye haue not receiued the spirit of bondage to feare againe Wherein is implyed that there is a time wherein the children of God feare God for his iudgements but now saith he Ye haue receiued the spirit of Adoption whereby ye cry Abba Father and that is the spirit of freedome and of boldnesse So that the child of God is not alwayes held vnder that slauish feare but commeth at last to feare God out of loue to him and abstaineth from sinne not so much for punishment sake as for the detestation hee beareth to it and because it offendeth so good and so gratious a God Yea though there were no hell at all to punish sinne yet would hee not willingly commit sin out of that awfull respect hee beareth to so good a God and louing Father in Iesus Christ Now because this loue is not perfect in the childe of God neither any other grace whilest wee liue here there will be still a remnant of seruile feare remaining euen in the best as Iob saith Punishment was fearefull vnto him Iob 31.23 Neither are they exempted from all feare of Gods iudgements in as much as the remembrance hereof is an excellent preseruatiue against sinne Psal 119.120 So Dauid My flesh trembleth for feare of thee and I am afraid of thy iudgements Dauid had in him a sonne-like feare of God fearing him out of loue yet in the second place he stood in awe of his iudgements This serues then first of al to discouer vnto vs in what a wretched and miserable estate and condition such men are in Vse 1 that haue not the feare of God before their eies behold we the state of such in this impenitent Thiefe such men must needs runne headlong into all manner of abhominations for alas what should restraine them when the feare of God is wanting Rom. 3.12 13 14 15. Marke the Apostle Their throat is an open sepulchre with their tongues they haue vsed deceit the poyson of Aspes is vnder their lips whose mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse their feet are swift to shed bloud destruction and misery is in their wayes and the way of peace they haue not knowne But what might bee the reason of all these vile and filthy abhominations the Apostle subioynes There is no feare of God before their eyes Abraham knew this when hee caused Sarah his wife to dissemble and to say shee was his Sister and therefore wofull and miserable is the estate and condition of such whom the Lord hath thus giuen ouer to themselues and to their owne hearts lust and want this holy feare to preserue them Secondly this may serue to admonish vs euery one that as wee desire to be free from those grosse and grieuous inormities of the times that wee labour to get our hearts seasoned with the feare of God that we may truely say The Lord is our feare Esay 8.13 our dread This will fence vs from sinne and arme vs against euery euill way such are freed from those vile abhominations wherewith the liues of all wicked men for the most part are tainted withall Yea the feare of God is such an excellent thing that all the duties wee owe vnto God Eccl. 12.13 are comprehended therein Let vs heare the end of all saith Salomon feare God and keepe his Commandements for this is the whole duty of man Yea The priuiledges that belong to them that truely fear God to such belong all these excellent priuiledges and prerogatiues First they shall not want any temporall good thing O feare the Lord O yee his Saints Psal 34.9 Psal 112.3 for there is no want to them that feare him Secondly such hath the Lord promised to acquaint with his secrets The secrets of the Lord are with them that feare him Psal 25.14 Thirdly such onely are vnder the Angels protection Psal 34.7 The Angels of the Lord encampe round about them that feare him Fourthly God takes speciall notice of such Mal. 3.16 A booke of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord. And last of all for the life to come no man is able to expresse the excellent priuiledges of such Psal 31.19 O how great is the goodnesse which God hath laid vp for them that feare him All which may be so many moti●es to stir vs vp to get this feare of God which hath the promise of this life and the life to come and to whom alone so many excullent priuiledges belong and appertaine Seeing thou art in the same condemnation Text. In these words wee haue his third Argument 3 Argument to disswade his fellow from that his rayling on Christ and this is taken from his owne present misery A presenti miseria Thou art saith he in the same condemnation q.d. Fye vpon thee most desperate wretch Is this the behauiour meete for him that is now going to giue vp his last account before the great Tribunall and that Iudge of all the world before whom thou art shortly to appeare to giue account of all the actions of thy life past especially of this thy blasphemy against the Lord Iesus the innocent And herein as before this penitent Thiefe sheweth an excellent fruit of his owne repentance pressing his fellow with this Argument the consideration of his present misery and punishment that was now vpon him Thou art in the same condemnation Note we hence That punishments and afflictions Doct Afflictions that summon to death should in a speciall manner cause men to looke home especially such as summon to death should in a speciall manner cause vs to looke home humble vs and cause vs to breake off our sinnes by repentance and when they produce not this effect especially when death approaches and we