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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30672	Not fear, but love a sermon preached before the governors of the Charity for Relief of Poor Widows and Orphans of Clergy-men, at St. Mary le Bow, on the 7th day of Decemb., 1682 / by Ar. Bury ...	Bury, Arthur, 1624-1713.	1683 (1683)	Wing B6203; ESTC R37172	30,572	54

both to Will and to Do of his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 good will It is the very same word wherewith the Angels broght their glad tidings of great joy and it were strange if out of the same breath should come Gladness and Fear Joy and Trembling That we may not seem bent wholely to pull down the obvios sence without bringing a better in place this we offer as the Apostl's meaning It was only the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the loving kindness of God which wrought in you the desire of salvation and the same loving kindness will crown That desire with success if it be attended with endeavor do you therefor your part with such affection as shall make you even Tremble again And that we may give account of the Idiom as well as of the Argument we must observe that Any passion whatever if vehement will cause Trembling But bicaus this is most visib'l in Fear therefor Fear is added to express the certainuy of Trembling as Trembling is used to express the vehemence of the Passion 2. HAVING Thus interpreted one saying of our Apost'ls by another we com now to do our Savior the same service who also seemeth to contradict our position Lu. 12.4 I say unto you my friends be not afraid of them that kill the body and after that have no more that they can do but I will forwarn you whom you shall fear Fear Him which after he hath killed you hath power to cast into hell yea I say unto you Fear Him It is plain that Fear in this place can signifie no other than the Properest and no less than the Greatest and is enforced by our Lord in the most pressing manner inculcated by sundry repetitions and urged with a most dreadful reason This cannot be denied but must be interpreted by our Lord 's own parab'l Lu. 14.16 A certain man made a great supper and bad many and he sent his servants at supper time to say to them that were bidden Com for all things are now ready and they all with one consent began to make excuse and the Lord said unto his servants go out into the high ways and hedges and compell them to com in that my house may be furnished with guests This parab'l will fully reconcile our Lord's threats with the spirit of Love for it declareth that the Lord 's proper design was not to Troubl his neighbors but to Fest them His first work was to provide a great supper and then many guests to enjoy it to which end he secondeth his large provisions with kind invitations But when few or none can this way be prevailed with to leav the farms and cattel which they have boght or the Lusts which they have espoused either all the provisions must be lost or som other means used more suitab'l to the necessity than to the nature of a fest We must therefore distinguish the Principal End from the Subordinate Means who 's whole buisiness is to serv That End And since the End is chosen for its own sake and the Means only for the Ends sake we must advance the spirit of Love as much as is Possib'l but That of Fear only so much as is Necessary Comply with it so far as to follow it from the Hedg to the Hous and then dismiss it to exercise its kind rudeness upon others who need it And thus I hope I have fully accounted for my first position The Gospel doth not design to draw us by Fear but Love and it is for Love's sake if Fear be at all employed Com we now to our Secund. II. THE mistake of this is the cause that the Gospel and its preachers are so hated by the world What can we expect but contrary causes must produce contrary effects If therefor our preaching be different from that of the Apostl's our reception must be so to if glad tidings make the messengers feet beautiful evil tidings must needs make them loathsom Ahab's inference is Natural thogh scarce Reasonab'l I hate him bicaus he prophesieth not good of me but evil And whatsoever Jehoshaphat can say to the contrary such a Prophet shall be sentenced to the bread and water of affliction And hereof the proof is but too evident in all our enemies which may be reduced to two regiments 1. Those that hate All religion in general 2. Those that hate Ours of the Church of England in particular 1. Of those who hate All Religion in general som are Atheists and som are Semi-atheists I. THE ATHEISTS are made such by the spirit of Fear Upon This only ground did Epicurus build his impudent pretence to that gracios title which the Scripture teacheth us to pay our Lord THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD For he bosted that he delivered his disciples from the torment of Fear But we now heard St. John declare that this is do'n by the spirit of Love Love casteth out Fear and for this reason too bicaus Fear hath torment The question therefor between Atheism and Religion is not whether Fear shall be cast out or no but whether of the two doth it most effectually Christ or Epicurus Should we insist upon the Weakness or Dangerosness of Atheism we might easily prove it both insufficient to give any settled peace to the never-that-way secure conscience and terribly dangeros if at last it prove fals But my present work rather promts me to insist upon this that it maketh not the least pretence to the Beauty admired in my Text but wholely renegs all glad tidings of good things It 's utmost aim is to cast out Fear without a thoght of making our joy full And this indeed is the proper ground whereon to fight out the quarrel Whilst we dispute whether there be a God and Providence or no we maintain but a hedge fight wherein the enemy may make a bad shift to skulk behind his bushes and ditches But if we dispute concerning our own Happiness even our Present happiness whether it be greater in a Religios life or in a Sensual then we charge him home in his own ground and leav him no shelter Colotes it seems was the first Epicurean that ever appeared in this field For he wrote a Treatise professing to prove that upon the principls of the Religios it is impossib'l to live pleasantly Against this Plutarch opposeth another Treatise proving that upon the principls of Epicurus a man cannot so much as live and thus bosteth of his work This is to trampl upon their bellies and put them to fight for their very flesh to take plesure from men that do nothing but cry we are no good soldiers nor scholars nor magistrates but we love to make good chear to banquet and fill our flesh with all delights until the plesure mount to the very soul to rob such men of plesure is to rob them of life Thus doth he crow and upon this ground comparing the plesures of the Spirit in Religios Fests with those of the Flesh in Sensual