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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12974	An exposition vpon the CXII. Psalme The high way to euerlasting blessednesse. Written for the benefit of Gods church, by T.S.	Stint, Thomas.	1621 (1621)	STC 23269; ESTC S107442	67,502	220

to become a doer so shall you auert this curse and reproch from you so shall God and man call you blessed and blessed shall you feele your selfe in so doing now if you shall lay this to heart in the strength of your yeares it shall be your chiefest wisedome for it is religion and godlinesse that shall embalme your name and make it shine before men and glorifie your soule amongst Angels Luk. 7.37 Maries boxe of oyntment shall neuer be forgotten for godlines hath the promise of this life and that which is to come and that without it there is no internall comfort to bee found in conscience in this world nor eternall happinesse to bee hoped for in the next hoping it shall finde entertainment at your hands and that you will finde time at your leasure to peruse it desiring your fauourable acceptance of my good meaning in this behalfe I humbly take my leaue recommending you to the Lord and to the word of his grace the God of heauen so vouchsafe to water you and yours with the dew of heauen that with the godly man in this Psalme your generation may bee blessed and that at the end of this life your reward may be true blessednesse which mercie the Lord grant you for his Sunne Iesus Christs sake Amen Your most bounden and in all Christian duties to command T. S. Faults escaped in Printing Page 21. line 8. reade chearefull p. 27. l. 7. r. q.d. p. 29. l. 1 r. dans p. 30. l. 18. r. in order p. 36. l. 16. r. late p. 81. l. 10. r. a to p. 81. l. 14. r. vnto p. 103. l. 23. r. heare p. 104. l. 22. r. the Sechemites p. 125. l. 22. r. to do p. 151. l. 7. r. of the Hebrewes p 157. l. 4. r. that p. 165. l. 8. r. in these p. 187. l. 14. r. this the. Christian Reader I feare there are other faults besides these I desire thee therefore to correct these and beare with the rest and so I bid the● heartily farewell AN EXPOSITION ON THE CXII Psalme verse 1.2 VERSE 1. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord and delighteth greatly in his commandements his seed shall bee mighty vpon earth the generation of the righteous shall be blessed THere is no greater encouragement or stronger motion to stirre a man to an eager and earnest pursuite of the meanes then to propose vnto him an end wherein at length his heart may repose as in a concurrance of al comforts and contentments to which there is no possibility of attainment but by purenesse of heart holinesse of life constancie in the course of sanctification which onely leade vnto the face and presence of God where and with whom alone is the highest perfection of blisse a riuer of infinite pleasures the well of life and endlesse rest of all created desires For the capacitie of mans soule cannot possibly be filled with the sufficiency of any creatures no not with a world of creatures for they are all nothing to the worth of a mans soule Christ himselfe hauing preferred it in valuation What shall it profit a man though he should winne the whole world if he loose his owne soule And therefore can neuer be free from motion and vexation vntill it reach vnto either in certaine hope or actuall fruition an obiect infinite as well in excellency of nature as duration of time Blessed then was the wisedome of the disposer of these heauenly songs of Dauid First this Psalme doth teach vs these two worthy points namely how the blessed man liues and that is in the feare of the Lord. Secondly what manner of life he leades and greatly delighteth in his Commandements These Psalms of Dauid the sweet singer of Israel are penned with such heauenly wisedome that they are convenient for the state of the whole Church and euery member thereof It is a banquet of heauenly wisedome saith Ambrose and as Basil speakes of another part of the Scripture likening it to an Apothecaries shop so may this booke of the Psalmes fitly be compared in which are so many sundry sorts of medicines that euery man may haue that which is conuenient for his disease for there is no sickenesse of man whereunto the booke of the Psalmes furnisheth not a present remedy First this blessed mā is described shewing what hee doth carefully embrace and follow Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord that is that endeauors to the vtmost of his power to liue in the feare of the Lord. Secondly what is his practise namely to be much often in serious Christian meditation and delights greatly in his cōmandements Thirdly he sheweth the happy succes of this blessed man his seed shall be mighty vpon earth Now seeing this is the maine proposition of the psalm to proue that the godly man and hee that feares the Lord is onely blessed therefore the Prophet doth first shew who bee truely blessed and then wherein their blessednesse doth consist Dauid often vseth this phrase as in the first Psalm Blessed is the man that walketh not in the councell of the vngodly c. And in the 32. Psalme Blessed is hee whose wickednesse is forgiuen whose sinnes is couered c. And as here we haue it Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord. It seems to be the words of a man in admiration or admiring with himselfe as if he should say O the blessednesse of that man that feareth the Lord. In this duty I obserue three points first what is the true feare of God Secondly what wee are to feare in God Thirdly by what meanes wee may attaine to this feare There is a two-fold feare the one is holy and good called filial or childish the other is bad and naught termed seruile or slauish the filiall or childish feare is such an one as is in children towards their parents who doe reuerence and feare them as being vnwilling to offend them any way whether by words or deeds through the tender loue and affection which they doe beare towards them the seruile feare is such an one as is in bondslaues towards their maisters who doe reuerence and feare them through the dread and feare of punishment which otherwise they are sure to haue if they offend and doe contrary to their duties so that some do feare him through loue and care to offend him and others do feare him through dread of punishment and power to torment them and it may be defined thus What the feare of God is It is a reuerence of Gods maiestie in our hearts whereby wee are made vnwilling to offend him in any thing and most willing to please him in all things through the loue which wee beare towards him This is a vertue most necessary and requisite for all Christians whatsoeuer as might at large be shewed but let the example of Abraham suffice Gen. 20.11 who thinking that the feare of God was not in Gerar vtterly despayred of any other vertue and therefore mooued