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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Ianitor Animae THE SOVLES 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 The feare of God is the beginning of wisedome PRO. 1 7. Let us heare the conclusion of all Feare God Eccles 12.13 Timor praesens securitatem generat sempiternam Aug. LONDON Printed by I. D. for Iohn Cowper at the holy Lambe at the East end of S. Pauls Church 1638. TO THE RIGHT Honourable the Lord WILLIAM E●rl● of S●●t●bury Vi●ount C●t● b●rre Ba●on of ●ss●●t●● Captain of his Majestie● Pensi●ne s Knight of the n●ble order of the Garter one of his Majesties most hon●u●able privie Councell and his most noble Patron Together with the right honorable the Lady ●ath●●ine C●un●●lle of S●lt●●ury and his most noble L●dy h●●o●thy exa●ples of t●e 〈…〉 and pra●tiz● o● time pr●t●●●nd religion Wi●liam Price their devoted O●●t●●●● and Chaplaine wi●h●th th● b●st of blessin●s f●om the b●st of B●in●s May it please your H●●●urs I Prefix your worthy great names afore this plain and unpolished Discourse not that I intend to thrust my pen into any quarrelsome theam that may provoke the fury of the Dans of this world Gen. 49.17 that serpent-like lye in the paths to bite the heele of every passenger betweene whom and mee I should intreat your Honors as a screen to interpose to hide me from their rage For surely no Christian hath so farre changed his humanity with a beast or cast himselfe so many degrees behinde the purblinde Gentiles as professedly to beare armes against a Booke honoured with the title of the Feare of God Neither dare I over-weeningly presume that there is any thing in the stile or conveyance of the subject in hand that meriteth an admission into your Honours closets much lesse into the Cabinet of your more serious thoughts or that may attract an eye of favour from you My weekly labouring in Gods Harvest forbids pompe in language and ambition of quotation Next the advancement of Gods glory which as our ultimate end ought to regulate moderate stint and bound our actions the scope that I levell at is the unfeigned expression of my gratitude and service which your constant countenance your undeserved bounty your propitious acceptance of my meane fore-past labours doth more than challenge from me who desires no longer to draw his breath than hee shall study to approve himselfe Your Honours Chaplain in all humble observance William Price The Contents of the severall Chapters in this Treatise CHAP. I. THE Introduction p. 1. Chap. 2. Of the nature and kindes both of feare in generall and of the feare of God in particular p. 5. Chap. 3. How God being the chiefest good can bee feared p. 40 Chap. 4. Whether Adam in the state of innocencie feared God and whether the Angels and Saints in heaven feare God p. 45 Chap. 5. How the feare of God can stand with the love of God with ioy faith and hope in God p. 48 Chap. 6. How far the filiall feare of God may stand with the fear of man p. 56 Chap. 7. Whether the feare of Judgement he contrary to the filiall feare of God p. 76 Chap. 8. The proper distinguishable symptomes of the feare of God and first of those absolute signes that discover the essentiall ingredients that constitute the genuine fear of God 81 Chap. 9. Of those signes that put a difference betweene the slavish and the filiall feare of God p. 108 Chap. 10. Of those signes that discover whe●her wee feare God more than man or man more than God 131 Chap. 11. A dehortation from those sins that are contrary to the feare of God and first of carnal security with the remedies thereof p. 156 Chap. 12. Of audacious presumption in sinning and the antidot against it 178 Chap. 13. Of superstitious feare and the counterpoyson against it p. 204 Chap. 14. Of the servile feare of God p. 215 Chap. 15. Of the excessive feare of the creature 219 Chap. 16. A serious exhortation to the feare of God and first of the maner how we ought to feare God 226 Chap. 17. The meanes whereby the feare of God may bee wrought and increased p. 248 Chap. 18. Arguments for and motives unto the feare of God p. 253 Perlegi librum hunc cui titulus est Ianitor Animae cumque typis mandari permitto Sa Baker Ex aedibus Londin Maij penult 1637. CHAP. I. The Introduction IT is the triumph of this Theologicall vertue of the Feare of God that those who have least affinitie with it yet applaud it and professe it And it is my happinesse that nothing can commend a grace that is not with advantage excentred in this If I should here declare the nobilitie excellencie and transcendencie of the feare of God in it selfe and the utilitie and absolute indispensable necessitie of it in reference to us I should but fore-stall and prevent my selfe It is sufficient to premise both to excuse my writing to provoke all Christians advisedly diligently and throughly to read this ensuing discourse that though many have briefe essayes yet few or none have done this Royall grace the honour or right to allot unto it a compleat full treatise And that that may invite alleyes minds hither is this consideration that when many other graces are peculiarly pertinent to persons as they are members of a family in the threefold combination therin between husband and wife parent and childe master and servant Or as they are members of a politicke body ecclesiasticall or civill And when other duties receive specification and restriction from circumstances of time place this of the feare of God like a well limbed picture casteth an eye on all that looke on it It corresponds to all persons none excluded It is seasonable at all times sacred and common especially when the scourges of God lye upon neighbouring Nations and threaten us And the thoughts hereof may justly in all places presse upon us without being guilty of unmannerly instruction Now for the methodicall contriving of this discourse I shall by divine assistance pursue that order that may most aptly answer the subject matter and may bee most facile and appliable to the mindes and memories of the Readers CHAP. II. Of the nature and kindes both of feare in generall and of the feare of God in particular THE first inquiry will be What the feare of God is Where the nature and kindes both of feare in generall and in particular of the feare of God will opportunely fall in Now to penetrate the depth of this Quaere we must distinguish of feare 1. As it is a naturall affection indifferent in it selfe neither morally good nor evill 2. As it is a habit or qualitie inherent in the affection If we consider feare as it is a naturall affection implanted in the reasonable Soule of man indifferent in it selfe neither morally good nor evill