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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

but not to mortifie his sin Lastly this servile feare is but an earnest of hell torments in many a wretched soule They that consider this will grant me that such a feare as this is to bee crucified with the rest of the body of sin Not that it is unlawfull to feare God for his judgements but to feare him for his judgements onely that is up on no other nor better ground I plead not that this feare should bee wholly abolished but that it may bee rectifi●d ●nd perfected otherwise it is the daughter of Infidelity the sister of hatred and the mother of despaire CHAP. XV. Of the excessive feare of the creature AF●ft Sinne that fights aginst the kindly feare of God is the excessiue feare of the creature When man feares man or any other creature either equally with or more then God And this we are dehorted from 1. Because as the throne and the bed can brooke no rivalls neither can God endure that the feare due to him shold bee given to another Heare how zelously hee expostulates the case Isay 51.12 13. Who art thou that thou sholdst be affrayd of a man that shall dye and of the son of man that shall be made as grasse and forgettest the Lord thy maker that strecheth forth the heavens and layd the foundation of the earth And againe Isay 57.11 Of whom hast thou beene affrayd or feard that thou hast not remembred mee and thou fearest mee not Indeed this is idolatry and Sacriledge to preferr●● the creature afore th●● creator 2. This ouer-fearing of man is a flood-gat● that lets in much mischief Gen. 20.1 It made Abrhaam deny his wife Sarah It made Ionas when he was sent to Niniveh Ion. 1.2.3 to fly to Tarshish It made St. Peter to deny his master with an oath and a bitter execration Had wee not need then to make head against it 3. It is a ridiculous brainelesse Timent carcerem non timent gebennam timent cruciatum temporalem non poenas ignis aeterni timent modicùm mori sed non aeternùm mori Aug. reasonlesse thing to feare man more then God Wee use to laugh at children that feare a vizour more then the man that weares it Saint Austin imputes it to mans extreme folly Men feare the prison but they feare nor hell Contemne potes●tem timendo maiorem potestatem they feare temporall torment but they feare not the paines of unquencheable sire They feare the first but not the second death Despise saith hee man his power by dreading a supremer power And again saith he God commands one thing the Emperour another what must a mans answere bee Pardon mee dread Sir Da veniam ●u carcerem ille g●hennam you threaten prison and God threatens hell And agian saith he What can man doe Acuit novacul●m ut capillos radat non ut caput incidit He can but sharpen his razour to shaue off our hayre our heads are not in his power Every good man may answere the proud m●nances of men as Christ answered Pilate Knowst thou not saith Pilate that it is in my power to crucify thee Ioh. 19.103.11 our Saviour an answered thou couldst have no power at all against mee execept it were given thee from above Now who wold feare a sword that is in the hand of him that loves him Who wold feare a slave or Scullion more then the Lord master We wold hisse at that man who shold feare an under-officer having a royall protection from his King 4. Hee that for the feare of man injureth his God many times looseth God and man both and is secured neither way I have read that a remorslesse wretch having his enemy at an aduantage held a pistoll at his brest and wisht him if hee loved his life to renounce his GOD. To save his life hee did so where upon hee pistold him with these words now my revenge is perfect both upon thy body and thy soule Wee see how little the feare of man will advantage us For in this sence hee that wold save his life may chance to loose it as our Saviour admonisheth Iohn 12. ● 25. Lastly God will pay us home in our owne coyne if wee will feare men more then wee ought wee shall feare man more then wee would The sound of an aspen leafe shall chase us Wee shall fly Leuit. 26.36 Pro. 28.1 when no man pursues us As the Burgundains feared that all the reedes they saw were launces Certainely hee deserves to feare all things who feareth not God above all Meritò om●a timet qui illum non timet Wheras the true feare of one wold acquit us from the feare of many CHAP. XVI A Serious exhortation to the feare of God and first of the manner how we ought to feare him What is past is Dehortatory what is behind shall bee exhortatory Now I have untaught the false fears I must have leave to teach the true feare of God Every plant that God hath not planted must bee rooted up and the true bred feare of God must be implanted in our harts And there are not more pathetical moving zealous frequent counsells commands exhortations to any theological vertue to any grace then to this royall grace of the feare of God It is Gods wish Oh that there were such a hart in my people to feare mee It is his commandement thrice imposed in one chapter the booke of Deuteronomy is ful of this theam Deut. 5.29 Deut. 6.1.2.13.24 Deut. 10.12 Now O Israel what doth the Lord thy God require of thee but to feare him And in this Deuteronomy is a right Deuteronomy repeating this law the secōd time for so the word imports nay again and again almost in every chapter certainly there is much in it else there needed not such redoubled iterations and inculcations This was a lesson that God himselfe wold vouchsafe to teach from heaven and hee required that parents shold instill it into their children Deut. 4.10 Our Saviour divides the old testament into Moses the Psalmes and the prophets Luke 24.44 And all these bookes often and seriously commend the feare of God to us We have heard Moses now for the psalmes Let all the earth feare the Lord Psal 33.8 let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him Psal 34.9 Oh feare the Lord yea his Saints For the prophets Isay 8.13 Let the Lord God of hoastes bee your feare In the new testament Phil. 2.12 Worke out your Salvation with feare trembling saith Saint Paul 1 Pet. 2.17 Feare God honour the King saith St. Peter Wee see that the feare of God is not out of date under the gospell The glad tidings of greet joy exclude not a holy feare Neither are ignoble poore men only obliged to feare God but also the greatest He or she that the Sun lookes on Princes are Gods afore men Psal 82.6.7 but