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heaven_n	able_a	earth_n	lord_n	2,703	5	3.5647	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90384	The fear of God: vvhat it is, and exhorted to as one of the great lessons God calls upon men to learn by his great dispensations in the last days. In a sermon preached unto the Church of Christ meeting in Petty France London, the tenth day of the sixth month. Anno 1656. By the faithful servant of Christ John Pendarves a little before his death.	Pendarves, John, 1622-1656.	1657 (1657)	Wing P1137; Thomason E907_3; ESTC R3183	20,112	38

David tells us the like Psal 36.1 they have not this true Son-like fear natural men are unacquainted with it 2 That this fear comes by union with Christ and his Spirit that is the cause of it you may see Psal 86.11 Vnite my heart to fear thy name this fear of God it comes by vertue of an union with Jesus Christ by faith for the spirit of the fear of the Lord it is given to Christ Isa 11.2 And he received of that annoynting to shed it abroad amongst his Members and to give it to those that are united to him and no further then we live in union with Christ by faith can we bee partakers of this gracious frame of spirit to fear the Lord in truth this is a Lesson which the Spirit teaches and therefore it was by the Spirit that David cries out Come yee children and hearken unto mee and I will teach you the fear of the Lord Psa 34.11 and this God hath promised to give to his people Jerem. 32.40 I will put my fear in their hearts and they shall not depart from me But if you ask me how the Spirit works this in the heart of a Beleever 3 I say it is through the discovery of the glory of God in his Word and Works by Christ by the Glory of God I understand his Attributes when Moses desired to see Gods Glory he shews him his Attributes in Exod. 34.5 6. he proclaimed the Name of the Lord and what is it why The Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious long suffering and abundant in goodness and truth This is the discovery of Gods Glory the discovery of his Name 1 Hee begins with his Attribute that denotes his Soveraignty and Dominion The Lord Salomon tells us The fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdome and indeed until a Soul understands something of the Soveraignty and Dominion of God over him hee never comes to make a right use of Gods love and goodness for until the Soul comes to see that God orders all things in Heaven and Earth and that he is in the hands of the great God to dispose of him as he will and that he can destroy him and cast him to Hell if hee pleaseth he cannot finde any sweetness in the tenders of Grace in the Gospel nor apply his Soul in reality to them and therefore I finde that when the Prophets of God of old time brought Gods Message to the Sons of men they usually spake to them as from the Lord saying Thus saith the Lord you have it sometimes twice in a verse setting forth Gods right of Soveraignty over them to whom they delivered their Message and this is that which is exceeding needful to bee set upon the hearts of the Sons of men when they come to hear Gods Word or have any thing to doe in his Works when the Soul considers Gods Soveraignty over him it causes him to stand in awe and fear before him and therefore by this you may try your selves whether this fear of God be in you or no Did the Lord ever shew himself to you as the Soveraigne Lord and make you to lye at his feet as dust and ashes and as clay in the hands of the Potter for if ever God have wrought this fear in your heart this was your frame I know many have a notional knowledge of Gods Soveraignty and are able to write Books of it but are your hearts really affected with it so as to lye low before the Lord in the apprehensions of it I finde it hard in every action to know this God to be the Soveraigne Lord of all and that he ruleth in all things and wee are to obey him in thought word and deed and to fear continually before him But 2 There is Gods goodness which is another thing wherein his glory appears he is the Lord God merciful and gracious and this following the former much conduces to fear him when the Soul considers that the great God that made the Heavens and the Earth and before whom all Nations are but as the drop of a Bucket should offer tenders of Grace and Mercy to be reconciled to such a poor sinfull Creature this inclines the heart to hearken to him and fear before him knowing this that he is the Lord that exerciseth loving kindness judgement and righteousness in the earth Jerem. 9.24 and that he is good to all those that fear him Psal 34.9 10 11. this brings the heart over to God indeed when Gods greatness and goodness is displayed before the Soul together this works up the heart in reality towards God O how doth David admire Gods love when he considers the great Works of God in Psal 8.3 When I consider the heavens the works of thy fingers the Moon and the Stars which thou hast made what is man that thou art mindful of him and the Son of man that thou visitest him and at vers 9. O Lord how excellent is thy name in all the earth he could not but admire and fear and fear and admire Gods great name But again 3 Let us also consider Gods power which much conduces in the hand of the Spirit to work this fear of God in our hearts and therefore you shall finde when God calls upon his people to hearken to him hee useth such kinde of expressions as these Thus saith the Lord that made the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth that they cannot bee moved And what a strong influence it hath you may see in Jer. 10.6.7.10 12 13. There is none like unto thee Oh Lord thou art great and thy Name is great in might Who would not Fear thee thou King of Nations the Lord is the true God and the everlasting King at his wrath the earth shall tremble and the Nations shall not be able to abide his indignation he hath made the earth by his power he hath established the world by his wisdome and hath stretched forth the heavens by his discretion hee maketh lightning with rain and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures Very gloriously you see the Prophet sets forth the greatness of Gods power when he comes to declare a message to the people from him So also the Prophet Isaiah in the 40. Chap. 12 13 14 15 16 17. sets forth Gods Power as he hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and meted out heaven with a span and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the Mountains in scales and the Hills in a ballance Behold the Nations before him are but as the drop of a bucket and as the small dust of the ballance he taketh up the Isles as a very little thing and all Nations before him are as nothing And if that bee not enough he tells you They are counted to him less than nothing and vanity So vers 22. It is hee that sitteth upon the Circle of the earth and the Inhabitants thereof are as grashoppers that stretcheth out

World will be done by Instruments yet this people doe not extoll man in this work but cry out Great and marvellous are THY Works Lord God Almighty 5 They are a People that justifie God in all his Works and ways both of deliverance to his People and judgement upon his enemies which shews that they are such as compare Gods Word and his Works together and have also been seriously exercised in the observation of the sins of the Enemy that they thus justifie God in his Judgements towards them it being what they had deserved and hee had spoken and therefore they cry out Just and true are thy ways But 6 They acknowledge Christ to bee King of Saints Thou King of Saints 7 They are a People truly fearing God and standing up for the glory of his Name and this you have in the Text Who shall not fear thee O Lord and glorifie thy name they are a people of serious spirits truly fearing God and such as stand for the glory of God and not their own advantages in the world but that God may have glory this is that which they have most in their eye and upon their hearts that God may have a great Name in the world Who shall not fear thee O Lord and glorifie thy name So that you see those which shall get the victory over the Beast are not a People of a loose and wanton conversation I take Antichrist his Power and false Ministery which have stood up in Christendome so called for many Generations to be the Off-spring of those which Peter and Jude spake of in their Epistles which you have there described but those that shall get the victory over them are persons of a contrary spirit But againe 8 It appears they are a People of great Light and much Faith in the Prophesies concerning the coming in of the Nations to Worship God and own Jesus Christ for this is a part of their Song All Nations shall come and worship before thee for thy Judgements are made manifest they are not a narrow spirited People which contest with the Beast such as only desire that Christ should bee exalted in the Nations Cities or places wherein they live or in their own Church but throughout all the earth so zealous are they for the honour of Christ above their own private and personal interests These are their qualifications And therefore if you consider where these qualifications are most to be found and who they are that oppose them it may help you to finde out the Beast in his most Refined Habit. But to return to that part of the Song that I propounded to speak unto in these words Who shall not fear thee O Lord and glorifie thy name Two things there are which are very much upon the heart of this People that get victory over the Beast the First is to Fear the Lord. Secondly To exalt the greatness of his name and this upon the account of his Judgements being made manifest so that the observation I shall give you from the words is this Obs That the two great Lessons that God calls upon men to learn by his great Dispensations in the last days when hee brings his Judgements upon the wicked is to fear God and give glory to his name This may be concluded from this holy Expostulation of theirs in their Spiritual rejoycing this they had learned themselves and this they rejoyce in that others should learn to fear God and give glory to his name so that I say these are the two Lessons God would learn the Sons of men when he is bringing Judgements upon his enemies namely to fear him and glorifie his name That this is so you may see clearly in Revel 14.6 7. And I saw another Angel fly in the midst of Heaven having the everlasting Gospel to preach to them that dwell upon the earth and to every Nation and Kindred and Tongue and People saying Fear God and give glory to him Why so for the hour of his Judgement is come so that you see these are the two great Lessons that God calls upon men to learn when his Judgements are going forth in the earth as if indeed in these two things were summed up the whole duty of man in the last days But I shall briefly lay before you some things further to clear this truth that these are the two Lessons God calls men to learn from the Dispensation of his great Works in the last days and it may further appear upon this ground Reas 1. Because these are the two Lessons which being learned doe very much serve to fit and prepare men for those great designes which God hath to bring to pass in the last days now those qualifications God especially looks after and requires of the Sons of men at any time and season which may best fit them for the Work God hath to doe at such a season Now what qualifications are there that more fitly serve for the carrying on of Gods great Works than to fear God and have respect unto his name 1 For the fear of God you shall finde when God had any Work to doe of old this was one chief qualification that God looked at if it were but to a Civil Office between men and men God requires this that they should be men fearing God consider that counsel that was given by Jethro the Prophet of the Lord to Moses Exod. 18 21. Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men such as fear God men of truth hating covetousness and place such over them Rulers of hundreds of fifties and tens and let them judge the people to wit Israel at all seasons and oh that men would walk after the Laws of this blessed people whose Laws were extolled by God above all Laws given to any Nation under heaven Deut. 4.8 What Nation is there saith God so great that hath Statutes and Judgements so righteous as all this Law which I set before you this day and the truth is men of great abilities that have not the fear of God in their hearts they are but the greater enemies to the great Designes and Works of the God of heaven And therefore this is a sweet and blessed qualification that God would have in every one that shall bee set up for him see 2 Sam. 23.2 3. which are the words of the Spirit of the Lord by his servant David and this is often inculcated The Spirit of the Lord spake by mee and his word was in my tongue The God of Israel said the Rock of Israel spake to mee hee that ruleth over men must be just ruling in the fear of God And this hath been formerly much set upon the hearts of many that have been great instruments in the work of God in this Nation that if they put any in place or office in the Nation they should bee men fearing God And hath not God made way for such to Rule having converted so many in the Nation But again