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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

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mouth I wil speak be it good for the king or not good whether it please him or displease him This was a fearer of God indeed 2. They feare man more than God who will rather obey the commandment of man than of God Rom. 6.16 His servants you are sayth S. Paul him you reverence and feare whom you obey That subject that will disobey his God to obey a magistrate that childe who will disobey his Father in heaven to obey his earthly father that servant who will disobey his heavenly master Eph. 6.5 to obey his master according to the flesh that subject that sonne that servant fears man more than God Psal 36.1 The transgression of the wicked against Gods law testifies sayth David that there is no feare of God afore his eyes Whereas they that feare God more than man will infinitely preferre obedience to God afore obsequiousnesse to man None are more obedient to man than those that feare God in what is agreeable with or not contrary to the wil of God But if God command one thing and man another they desire to bee pardoned if they take leave to obey the more supreme And therefore when the Councell asked S. Peter and the other Apostles why they preached in the name of Iesus when they had strict command to the contrary their answer was Acts 5.28.29 Wee ought to obey God rather than men And when the Councell called them and commanded them not to preach in Christ his name they returned this answer Acts 4.18.19 Whether it bee right in the sight of God to hearken to you rather than unto God judge yee 3. They feare man more than God that would not abstaine from sinne but onely for the feare of man Herod would have put Iohn Baptist to death Mat. 14.5 but that hee feared the multitude And the chiefe Priests and Pharisies would have layd hands on Christ but that they feared the people Math. 21. last verse who took Christ for a Prophet The Captaine and the officers brought the Apostles gently and without violence Acts 5.26 because sayth the Text they feared the people lest they should have stoned them Among us many feare stealing and murdering because they feare hanging Many feare neglect of comming to Church and to the Communion because they feare presenting Many feare adultery an fornication because they feare discovery the losse of their good name and temporall mulcts Oderunt peccare mali formidine poenae And what is all this but to feare man more than God On the other part they that feare God more than man will feare to commit those sinnes on which the law of man takes no hold As Iob made a conscience of looking upon a mayd to lust after her Iob. 31.1.1 A fault not liable humane censure 4. They feare man more than God that will omit their duty or commit any sinne for the threats of men Isa 57.11 Of whom hast thou been afraid that thou hast lied sayth God Not of God but of man King Saul by his owne confession transgressed the commandment of the Lord 1 Sam. 15.24 because hee feared the people Pope Marcelline in the time of heathenish persecution for feare of death offredincense to divels as he after confest with griefe as many Papists in their writings make mention On the contrary part they that feare God more than man wil not betray a tittle of truth to save their lives They will dye afore they wil yeeld so much as a knee in an idolatrous way or withhold any part of Gods worship from him or in any kinde make shipwracke of a good conscience You finde two famous examples hereof in the prophesie of Daniel The one was this Nebucl adnezzar threatned the three children Shadrach Meshech and Abednego that if at the sounding of the musicke they did not fall downe and worship the golden Image that hee had set up they should be cast in the houre of their refusall into the midst of a fiery furnace But what answer did they returne This Dan. 3.15.16.17.18 O Nebuchadnezzar wee are not carefull to answere thee in this matter Our God whom wee serve is able to deliver us out of thy hand O King But if not be it knowne unto thee O King that wee will not worship the golden image that thou hast set up An heroical resolution The other example is this K. Darius sealed a decree Dan. 6.7.8 9 10. that whosoever should aske a petition of any God or man for thirty dayes hee should bee cast into the den of Lions Yet for all this Daniel knowing of the signing of this decree went into his house opened his window toward Ierusalem and kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed to God Hee would not onely not omit to pray but hee would not forbeare the usuall ceremonies in praying of bowing the knee of opening his window toward Ierusalem So little the feare of man swayed him Theodoret and Nazianzen relate of S. Basil Nullam syllabam ds vinarum scr●pturarum in discrimen venire patiuntur c. that hee would say That those that feed upon Gods word will not suffer the least sillable of it to come into hazard Nos c●●teris humiliores sumus omnibus ubiverò de side agitur minimè timidi apparemus And againe that hee would say we are in all other things modest yeelding but when matters of faith and religion are in controversie we are not timorous then but as bold as Lions And againe that hee would say to Modestus a potent man Vse all your power against me Potestate tua contra me utare nunquam persuadebis you shall never perswade mee to subscribe to your Arrian heresie These men feared God more that man And we will not wonder that grace infuses such a courage into the fearers of God when we shall heare the answeres of Elvidius Priscus a heathen ito Vespasian the Emperour The Emperour commanded him not to come on such a day to the Senate or if hee came to speake as hee would have him Hee answered that hee was a Senator and therefore it was fit that hee should be at the Senate And if being there hee were required by the rest to render his opinion hee must speake freely and according to his conscience The Emperour threatned him that he should dye then He replyed that hee knew hee was not im mortall and hee added Doe what you will I will doe what I ought It is in your power to kill me but it is in my power to dye constantly Think but on this heathen and then you will beleeve that grace can make the faithfull much more spirited they building upon better grounds than any heathen could Princes sayth David did sit and speak against me Psal 119.23.109.110.161 yet I meditated in thy statutes And again My life is continually in my hand yet I forget not thy law The wicked