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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65309	Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the sixteen, seventeen and eighteen verses : seasonable for the times / by Thomas Watson ...	Watson, Thomas, d. 1686.	1682 (1682)	Wing W1139; ESTC R34736	91,573	245

is full of fallacies he who Fears God fears his Heart lest it should rob him of the blessing That saying of Epicharmus is Good 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Remember not to trust 3. The Fear of God will make a man Fear death Death may challenge a part in our Fear 1. Because it is such a serious thing it is the in-let to eternity and puts us into an unalterable estate 2. Because of it's Proximity it is nearer to us than we are aware it may be within a few hours march of us God may this night seal a Lease of Ejectment and say Give an account of your stewardship and what if death should come before we are ready 3. Because after death there is nothing to be done for our Souls there is no repenting in the Grave Eccles. 9.10 There is no work nor device in the Grave whither thou goest So that death is to be feared with an holy and Religious Fear How far may a child of God Fear death 1. So far as the Fear of Death is a Curben-bit to keep him from Sin A believer may lawfully make use of all means to deter him from sin No stronger antidote against sin saith Austin than the Fear of Death Am I sinning and to morrow may be dying 2. A Child of God may so far Fear death as it makes him dye to the World The Fear of death would sound a retreat and call us off from Vanity What is the world we must leave it shortly and all we can purchase is a burying-place 3. A Child of God may so far Fear death as this Fear fits him more for death Jacob feared his brother Esau's coming against him and he prepared to meet him he addressed himself to Prayer Gen. 32.7 24. So when we Fear deaths coming and we prepare to meet it we set our Soul in order This is a Good Fear of death But this Fear of death in the Godly must be mixed with hope The nature of death to a Believer is quite changed death is in it self a curse but God hath turned this Curse into a Blessing To a Child of God death is not a destruction but a deliverance When the Mantle of his flesh drops off he ascends in a fiery chariot to Heaven 4. The Fear of God will make a man fear Iudgment Anselm spent most of his thoughts upon the day of Judgement and Hierom thought he alwaies heard that Voice sounding in his ears Surgite mortui Arise ye dead and come to Judgment That there shall be such a day is evident 1. From Gods Veracity He who is the Oracle of truth hath asserted it Psalm 96.13 For he cometh for he cometh to Judge the earth There is a duplication 1. To shew the Certainty he cometh he cometh it is an indubitable Maxim 2. To shew the Celerity he cometh he cometh the time draws near it is almost day-break and the Judge is ready to take the bench Jam. 5.9 Gods decree cannot be reversed 2. There shall be such a day for the Vindication of Gods Justice Things seem to be carried in the World Partially the Godly suffer the Wicked Prosper Atheists are ready to think God hath cast off the Government of the World and minds not how things are transacted here below therefore there must be a judicial Process that God may undeceive the World and set things right 3. That there shall be such a day is evident by the Principles ingrafted in a natural conscience When Paul reasoned of Judgment to come Felix trembled Acts 24.25 The Prisoner at bar made the Judge tremble That a Wicked man dying is so surprized with terrors whence is this but from a secret apprehension of Judgment ensuing It will be a great Assizes never was the like seen 2 Cor. 5.10 We must all appear before the Iudgment Seat There is no flying no absconding no bribing no appearing by a Proxy but all must make their Personal appearance They who were above Trial here and the Law could not reach them must appear before the Tribunal of Heaven Who shall be Judge Jesus Christ Iohn 5.22 Acts 17.31 He hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world by that man whom he hath ordained In that Christ is called a Man hence the Socinians blasphemously deny the essential Deity of Christ. That he is God is most clearly evinced from Isaiah 9.6 Ioh. 1.1 1 Cor. 8.6 1 Ioh. 5.20 We are in him that is True even in his Son Iesus Christ this is the true God Christ is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Consubstantiate with God the Father Heb. 1.3 But Christ the Judge is called Man because he shall Judge the world in a Visible Shape He must be both God and Man he must be God that he may see mens Hearts and he must be man that he himself may be seen What a solemn day will this be when Christ shall sit upon the Bench of Judicature he will judge righteously Psalm 9.8 Though he himself was wronged he will do no wrong And he will judge Critically Mat. 3.12 Whose fan is in his hand and he will throughly purge his floor He will see what is Wheat what is Chaff who have his Image upon him and who the mark of the beast Sure the Fear of God will cause an holy trembling at the thoughts of this day In what sence should those that Fear God Fear the day of Judgment Not with a Fear of amazement or despondency for the day of Judgment will be a Iubile a blessed comfortable day to them The Thrush sings at the approach of Rain so may Believers at the approach of Judgment Christ who is their Iudge is their Advocate But 1. The Godly should so fear Judgement as every day to renew their Sorrow for Sin They have sins quotidiani incursus that creep upon them daily and they must with Peter weep bitterly they must steep their Souls in the brinish Tears of Repentance It would be sad to be found at the last day in any sin unrepented of 2. The Godly should so Fear the day of Judgment as it makes them afraid of Sins of Omission The not dressing a wound brings death the not discharging duty may bring d●mnation You may read the solemn Process at the last day Mat. 25.42 I was an hungred and ye gave me no meat naked and ye cloathed me not sick and in Prison and ye Visited me not The charge here brought in is for sins of Omission Christ doth not say Ye took away my meat from me but Ye gave me no meat He saith not Ye put me in prison but Ye visited me not The sins of Omission condemned them Not praying in the family not sanctfying the Sabbath not giving Almes will be the fatal Inditement 3. The Godly should so far Fear the day of Judgment as it makes them afraid of dissembling in Religion For at that day false hearts will be unmasked Why did Paul walk