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A96594	Seven treatises very necessary to be observed in these very bad days to prevent the seven last vials of God's wrath, that the seven angels are to pour down upon the earth Revel. xvi ... whereunto is annexed The declaration of the just judgment of God ... and the superabundant grace, and great mercy of God showed towards this good king, Charles the First ... / by Gr. Williams, Ld. Bishop of Ossory.	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.	1661 (1661)	Wing W2671B; ESTC R42870	408,199	305

that we might fear him and he addeth which brought thee out of the land of Egypt that we might love him And in lege precandi he teacheth us to say Our Father that we might love him and he addeth which art in Heaven that we might fear him And in lege credendi we are taught to say I believe in God the Father that we might love him and to add Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth that we might fear him And besides all this we find that these two Graces Fear and Love 1. Are injoyned by the same Law 2. Do proceed from the same Cause 3. Do produce the same Effects And 4. Shall obtain the same Reward For 1. Moses that was faithful in all Gods house saith And now Israel What doth the Lord thy God require of thee Deut. 10.12 but to fear the Lord thy God to walk in his wayes and to love him Where you see fear and love so equally required that whosoever neglecteth the fearing of him though he should love him or omitteth the loving of him though he should fear him if he could do the one and not the other yet he is a transgressor and liable to the breach of this Commandment 2. As none denieth but mercy should procure love therefore Moses after he had rehearsed the great mercies of God towards the Israelites Deut. 10.11 21 22. Josh 23.9 11. Psal 130.4 addeth Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God And Joshua doth the like so David after he had considered his own vileness saith With thee there is mercy therefore shalt thou be feared Where you see the mercy of God is the foundation of this fear of God as well as of the love of God And as the mercy of God so the justice of God produceth both ●ffects the one as well as the other For my flesh trembleth for fear of thee and I am afraid of thy judgements saith the Prophet And though justice seems as oil to continue the burning of this lamp of fear and as water to quench the fire of love yet as lime which is naturally cold doth notwithstanding retain a fiery quality ex aqua incenditur ex qua omnis ignis extinguitur and is inflamed by water which doth extinguish all fire So the love of the Saints is kindled by the judgements of God Therefore the Prophet saith Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgements Psal 119.164 Psal 119.52 And again I remembred thy judgements of old and have received comfort 3. As love inflameth the desire to do what is acceptable unto God so fear hateth to do what is abominable unto him and as love keepeth his Precepts so fear loatheth to break his Commandments and as love mitigateth the sorrow which fear causeth so fear qualifieth the joy which love produceth And as S. John saith God is love so Jacob calleth him the fear of his father Isaac And as S. Paul saith Love is the fulfilling of the Law Gal. 6.2 Eccles 12. So Solomon saith The end of all things is the fear of God and the keeping of his Commandments 4. As the mercy of God is shewed upon thousands of them that love him Exod. 20. Luke 1.50 and keep his Commandments So it is no lesse upon them that fear him But as the Psalmist saith Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord he shall be mighty upon earth Gloria divitae in domo ejus And as the son of Sirach saith Timor Domini gloria gloriatio laetitia corona exultationis Because as the Prophet saith Dat haereditatem timentibus nomen suum Yea Psal 61.5 Psal 145.19 he will fulfil the desire of them that fear him and look whatsoever they do it shall prosper And as eternal life is promised to them that love God So eternal death shall never seize on them that fear God And in brief whatsoever attendeth the one becometh a follower of the other and no marvel because that in love fear is included and in fear love is implied And while we are in this world both grow together in the heart of every true Believer And as the Poet saith of another kind of love so I may more truly say of this Divine love Res est soliciti plena timoris Amor. This love of God is full not of distrustful but of careful fear Quia timentes Deum non erunt incredibles verbo Illius saith the son of Sirach Ecclus. 2. But the wicked have neither true fear nor perfect love For though Cain Esau and Judas had a kind of fear yet was it false because it wanted love And though the Pharisees and Simon Magus had a kind of love yet was it but counterfeit because it wanted fear for if the former had had love they would have desired favour and should have obtained grace and if the other had had fear they would have aimed at Gods glory and not have sought their own praise which did work their own confusion And therefore well might S. Peter enjoyn every Saint that loveth God to fear God And as the love of God so the fear of God is sometimes put for a part of Gods Service and sometimes for the whole Service of God and so it is in this place as in the first of Job and in Luke 1.50 and in the Psalms in many places As where he saith Come ye children hearken unto me and I will teach you the fear of the Lord where the fear of God signifieth the whole Worship of God to honour him obey him trust in him pray unto him and what duty soever else we owe unto him And thus the fear of God is the rarest Jewel and the most excellent thing in the World No riches no honour no preferment like unto it No evil shall happen to them that fear the Lord but God shall preserve them in temptation liberabit eos à malis Ecclus 33. saith Siracides And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation but mischief and unhappinesse and all evil shall continually attend and overtake them that fear not God to bring them to shame beggary and confusion as you may see it manifested in the Story of the sons of Israel who while they feared God were replenished with a thousand blessings preserved from a thousand misfortunes and delivered out of the Egyptian slavery by a thousand prodigies the Lord dividing the Sea to make way for them and closing the same again to destroy their enemies Drawing waters out of the Rocks to quench their thirst and feeding them with the food of Angels But when they did cast off the fear of God then God sent flying Serpents and stirred up enemies and powred down his vengeance upon their heads still plaguing them more and more untill they should be either quite consumed or happily reduced to embrace the fear of God again And not to search farre for any further presidents How happy we●e

scientiam zelati sunt sacriligi extiterunt in filium Dei they perswaded themselves that they had the love and zeal of the honour of God but because their zeal was not according to knowledge they became sacrilegious against the Son of God and their fiery zeal to Gods Worship became as Saint Ambrose saith A bloody Zeal unto Death and like unto a Ship under faile without a Pilate that will dash it self against the Rocks all to pieces so it is when we rob and spoyl and persecute the true Servants of Christ for being as we suppose the limbs of the Antichrist But such and so great is the malice and subtilty of Satan towards mankind that he cares not which wayes he brings man to destruction so he may bring him any way either in being too zealous without knowledge and so persecute the good for bad or too careless with all our knowledge and so bless the bad for the good either by hating the superstitious Papist The continual practice of the Devil beyond all reason or loving the malicious Sectary contrary to all reason either by falling into the fire on the right hand or into the water on the left hand either by making the whole Service of God to consist onely of preaching and hearing Sermons and neglect the Prayers and all other Christian duties or using the Prayers onely with the Service of the Church and omit the preaching of Gods Word for this hath been alwayes the Devils practise To separate those whom God would have joyned together and to joyn those together whom God would have kept asunder And therefore we should be very careful to joyn Knowledge and Discretion with our Zeal and desire to do God service if we desire to follow Christ 2. 2 The matter wherein we are to follow Christ For the Matter Points or wayes wherein the Sheep of Christ are to follow him they are very many but the chiefest of them are reducible into these three principal Heads 1. The works of Piety Joh. 2.17 2. The works of Equity 3. The works of Charity Jam. 2.16 Eph. 5.1 2. In all which we are to do our best endeavour to imitate and to follow Christ Actu ciffectu Bern. in Cant. S. 50. and therein we shall do the things that are most acceptable unto God and most profitable for our selves For the first none doubts of it but that these things are most acceptable in the sight of God And for the second we may be sure of it that it is better for us to build Churches to maintain Preachers and to erect Hospitals then to raise our Families and we shall receive more comfort to do Justice and to protect the Innocent and to relieve the Poor then by gaining Naboths Vineyard or he●ping Dives his Treasures unto our selves The time will not give me leave to prosecute these particulars any further but I pray God give us grace to prosecute the performance and doing of them throughout all our lives to the glory of God the discharging of our Duties and the eternall comfort of our own souls through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour To whom with the Father and the holy Spirit be all Glory and Honour for ever and ever Amen Amen Jehovae Liberatori THE SEVENTH TREATISE 1 John 4.19 We love him because he first loved us THis text you see is a text of love a Theam that filleth Sea and Land Heaven and Earth and as the Poets feign Hell it self Claudian de raptu Proserpinae when as the King thereof Tumidas exarsit in iras did swell with rage because he might not enjoy his love in hell as Jupiter did in heaven And yet the scarcity and want of true love causeth such plenty of great evils in every place for we love not God we love not our neighbours we love not our own selves for if we loved God we would keep his Commandments if we loved our neighbours we would neither wrong them nor oppress them and if we loved our selves then we would love God if not for his own sake which is the right love yet for our own good and our neighbours for Gods sake But for Gods Commandements I may truly say it with Nehemiah Nehem. 9.34 Neither have our Kings our Princes our Priests nor our Fathers kept his Laws nor hearkned unto his Commandments but as Ezra saith Ezra 9.7 We have all been in a great trespass unto this day and for our iniquities have we our King our Priests our Bishops our Judges and all of us been delivered to the sword to the spoil to confusion of face and to all these miseries as it is this day And for wronging one another if we consider all the oppressions that are done under the Sun nay that were done in these Kingdomes and the tears of such as were oppressed and had no Comforter when the oppressors had such power that none durst speak against them then as Solomon saith we may most justly praise the dead which are already dead more then the living which are yet alive Eccles 4.1 2 3 and him better then both which hath not yet been to see the great evils that are done amongst us And for our own selves we do just as the wise man saith seek our own death in the errour of our life and Sampson-like pull down the house upon our own heads as you may remember that when we had plenty of peace and prosperity then as the children of Israel murmured against Moses that delivered them out of the Aegyptian bondage and loathed Manna that came down from heaven so were we discontented at every trifle and so weary of peace and such murmurers against our happiness When the Articles of peace were published we were so discontented and murmured so much thereat that the ear of jealousie which heareth all things heard the same and was pleased to satisfie our discontents and to send us our own desires such plenty of wars and fulness of all miseries plagues famines and oppressions as our Fathers never knew the like and are like to continue amongst us until God seeth us more in love with his goodness towards us and our repentings move him to repent him of the evils that he intendeth against us that have so justly deserved them from him Therefore to ingender and beget love where it is not to encrease it where it is but little and to rectifie it where it is amiss either towards God or our neighbours or our selves I will by Gods help and your patience with as much brevity as I can How the created Trinity fell and may be reunited to the uncreated Trinity express the plenty of these few words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mellifluous S. Bern. whose laborious work is like a pleasant garden that is replenished with all sorts of the most odoriferous flowers saith that in the Unity of Gods Essence there is a Trinity of persons the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost

honoured and that so their own proper vertues only and not their Ancestors makes them glorious I had rather be as Juvenal saith the son of Thyrsites a base coward and to imitate the exploits of Achilles the most valiant Heroick than to be the son of Achilles and to behave my self like Thyrsites And I would choose sooner to be a faithful Jonathan the son of persecuting Saul than a rebellious Absolom the son of godly David But as Horace saith and we have seen it true that Aetas parentum pejor avis Horat. 3. Carm. 6. tulit Nos nequiores mox daturos Progeniem vitiosiorem The Progeny is worse than the Progenitors our Fathers worse than our Grandfathers and we far worse than our Fathers and our children like to be worse than we are a Progeny most vitious Earipides in Heraclid generatim bane sententiam ad omnes mortales retulit when as the off-spring still proves worse and worse and as Euripides saith Thou shalt scarce find one son amongst many 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is not worse than his father which made a certain poor Widow most earnestly to pray for the long life of her oppressing Landlord that was a most wicked Tyrant and her grievous persecutor and being demanded the reason why she did so zealously pray for him that never did her any good The poor womans prayer for her cruel Landlord but had heaped upon her very many intolerable wrongs she answered It was because she knew his Grandfather and he was a very bad man and an unjust Oppressor of his poor Neighbours and his Son this mans father proved worse than he and This man is far worse than them both and if he were dead I fear his son will be the Devil himself So these Jews though they were originally descended from Abraham the friend of God yet the posterity of Abraham degenerating How children degenerate from their Parents and the Progeny still growing worse than the Progenitors angring God in the Wilderness forty years together and killing his Prophets when they enjoyed the promised Land S. Stephen tells them they were now the children of Persecutors and of murderers and our Saviour saith John 8.43 They were the children of their father the Devil because he was a murderer from the beginning And as then it happened with the posterity of Abraham the Jews to grow worse and worse from Gods friends to be the Devils children So I fear it is now with the whole World and with all the posterity of the first good Christians to grow worse and worse and instead of being a faithful people to become a faithless and a stubborn generation a generation that setteth not their heart aright and whose spirit cleaveth not stedfastly unto God For in the Primitive times the Christians continued with one accord in the Temple praying and praising God and had Cor unum animam unam Acts 4.32 but in the suceeding times they degenerated and the love of many did wax cold and iniquity so far and so fast incrased that Linacrus reading the 6. What Linacrus did and 7. chapters of S. Mat. threw away his Testament and said Certè aut hoc non est Evangelium Christi aut nos non sumus Christiani Certainly either this is not the Gospel of Christ or we are not Christians that are so far from doing what he teacheth and commandeth us to do But when we find our Fathers to have degenerated from their good Fathers and instead of being faithful Christians and good Subjects to become Rebels and Murderers or Idolaters and the like to rob their neighbours and to resist their King to renounce their Baptism and to prophane the Chuches to countenance the wicked here on earth and to despise the Saints that are in Heaven as some of our Fathers lately did all these things and did much more horrid acts than any of these then ought we not to imitate them and to walk in the wayes of our Fathers as these Jews did and as the Prophet Jeremy saith have done worse than their Fathers Jerem. 16.12 for we ought not to observe the Statutes of Omri nor walk in the wayes of Jeroboam nor do the wickedness that our Fathers did but we ought to do as the Lord adviseth us by his Prophet Ezechiel saying unto us as he said unto the Jews Walk yee not in the Statutes of your Fathers neither observe their judgements Ezech. 20.18 nor their ordinances nor defile your selves by walking in their wayes and doing the like wrongs as they have done or confirming and continuing those injuries which they acted against their neighbours But What good children ought to do if they have made any Laws and given any Judgements to take away the goods or the lands and possessions of any man unjustly be he of what Nation or of what Religion soever when he hath done nothing worthy of censure and much lesse of disinheriting as I am sure and you may be sure of it they have done to very many in these Dominions and especially in this Kingdom Then do not ye justifie those doings and make good their judgements and continue the wrongs and oppressions that they have done and so sin with your Fathers and worse than your Fathers by making your selves not only the partakers of their sins but also the Patrons and Protectors of all their unjust proceedings But do ye confess the iniquities of your Fathers and say with the Prophet That they have done amiss and dealt wickedly and so do ye shew your selves sorry for their sins and recede from their unjust doings and rectifie what they have done amiss And if we thus return unto God Zach. 1 2. Malac. 3.7 then God promiseth that He will return unto us and he will blesse us But when we have Abraham to our father and are the sons of Jacob the children of such fathers as feared God and walked in his wayes relieved the poor and built and beautified Churches and spent their dayes in praying and doing all other pious deeds and wronging no man either in word or deed then ought we not to say with our new Saints They were superstitious and ignorant and walked in darkness by thinking to merit heaven by their works What good children ought not to do and have therefore merited to be sent to hell which is a most ungodly and uncharitable censure of most ungracious children that delight rather to spit in their fathers faces than to commend and to imitate their Vertues But we ought to honour the memories of our forefathers that have most faithfully served God and procured the blessings of God to those children that will serve God That God blesseth the good children for their godly fathers sake Gen. 26.24 as they have done because God loveth and hath promised to blesse the good children that will walk in the wayes of their godly fathers for their fathers sake that had formerly served him and