protection so doth every fearer of God 2. The feare of God is the porter of the soule that casts out sinne Ianitor animae Bern. and keepeth out sinne So Bernard It is the keeper of our innocence So Cyprian Cuslos innocentiae Cypr. It is the anchor of the soule that makes a man stable amidst all temptations Anchora cordis Greg. so Gregory The feare of the Lord is said by David to bee clean Psa 19.9 because it keepes men cleane Tutissiâ—â—uâ—iter quod suspectissimum Sen. Ep. 59. as he that walkes feare fully and warily walkes surely and cleanely That way is the safer the more suspicious we are in it By the feare of God men depart from evill saith Salomon Pro. 16.6 This was Ioseph his curb Gen. 39.9 how shall Icommit this great wickednes and sinne against God 3. The true feare of God expells all false feares as Moses his rod did eate up all the Egiptian rods It expels slavish feare because it is ioynd with ioy Rejoyce with trembling saith David Psal 2.11 This feare breeds eternal security It expells the excessiue feare of men Isay 8.12.13 Feare not their feare but let God be your fear saith the Prophet for indeed this feare is a counter-poyson to that Psal 13.4 Though I walke in the valley of the shadow of death I will feare no ill saith David 4. The feare of God is the mother of obedience And therefore when David desird to walke in the true way hee desired that he might feare God Psal 86.11 Eccles 12.13 for no obedience without feare Deut. 5.29 2 Chron. 19.5.6.7 Lev. 19.32 Every where in scripture feare and obedience are linked together If wee feare God wee will conscionably discharge all duties requireable in all our conditions and relations Then Iudges wold accept no persons and take no bribes then young men wold honour their elders Then the wife wold love and obey the husband children their parents and servants their masters Then executors would performe the wil of the dead And no man would offer to betray a trust Then every state would bee in ioynt and wee should live godlily righteously peaceably one by another In a word the feare of God is the nurse of perseverance unto the end He that is secure and presumptuous oft fals off when hee that feares God suspects himselfe holds his ground Feare breedes care and care continuance Formido facit sollicitudineÌ„ sollicitudo perseverantiam Tert. cont Marcion Had Peter feard more he had not faln so fouly I speake not of cowarde but of faithful feare It is Gods promise Ier. 32.40 Ier. 31.40 I will put my feare into their harts and they shal never depart from mee Last of all 1 Tim. 4.8 Feare and godlinesse have the promises of the life to come The feare of God tends to life Pro. 19.23 saith Salomon Pro. 19.23 How ever the squares goe now I know it shal goe wel with them that feare God Eccl. 8.12 saith the Preacher Eccle. 8.12 And Malachy 3.16 God writes a booke of remembrance for them that feare him Mal. 3.16 and hee promises that hee will acknowledge them as his in the day when hee shall make up his jewells Harder is that heart then the hardest adamant with which all these arguments cannot prevayle Thus have I given this point its due as I conceive yet wishing that an abler pen might ad what I have omitted My sacke hath corne in it to feed the hungry though not gold in the mouth thereof to feed the humour of a fancifull reader My aime is not to please the humerous but to profit all For censure and detraction it will bee lost upon mee for I regard it not I passe not mans iudgement 1 Cor. 4.3.4 hee that iudgeth mee is the Lord. Hee that regards the wind and raine shall never sow If I shall gaine but one soule by this discourse I am abundantly appayed Isay 49.4 but thogh Israel be not gathered yet my worke is with my God FINIS Errata GEntle Reader in reading this Treatise take notice of some faults escaped at the presse as page 2 line 15. read made before briefe Essayes p. 4. l 14. for instruction read intrusion p. 49 l. 14. for his read this p. 112. l. 12. for doth so read doth not so p. 119. l. 7. for and read may p. 158. l. 19. for coveant read covenant p. 176. l. 19. for cannot seradicate read cannot but cradicate p. 246 l. 1. for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
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 Eâ—rlâ— of Sâ—â—tâ—bury Viâ—ount Câ—tâ— bâ—rre Baâ—on of â—ssâ—â—tâ—â— Captain of his Majestieâ— Pensiâ—ne s Knight of the nâ—ble order of the Garter one of his Majesties most honâ—uâ—able privie Councell and his most noble Patron Together with the right honorable the Lady â—athâ—â—ine Câ—unâ—â—lle of Sâ—ltâ—â—ury and his most noble Lâ—dy hâ—â—oâ—thy exaâ—ples of tâ—e 〈…〉 and praâ—tizâ— oâ— time prâ—tâ—â—â—nd religion Wiâ—liam Price their devoted Oâ—â—tâ—â—â—â— and Chaplaine wiâ—hâ—th thâ— bâ—st of blessinâ—s fâ—om the bâ—st of Bâ—inâ—s May it please your Hâ—â—â—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 wheâ—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
the rockes and into the caves of the earth for the feare of the Lord and for the glory of his Majesty when he arises to shake terribly the earth Apoc. 6.16 They shall say sayth Saint Iohn the Divine to the mountaines and rockes fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne This feare cares not how farre God and it bee asunder Like that fâ—are of the Egyptians Psal 105 38. Egypt was glad of the Israelites departure for they were afrayd of them But the filiall feare of God unites the heart to God it drives him who is possest of it unto God When David was in a great streight hee cries 2 Sam. 24.14 Let us fall into the hands of God And it is Gods promise Ier. 32.40 I will put my feare into their hearts and they shall never depart from me The feare of a slave provokes him to runne from his master the feare of a loving childe prompts him to apply himselfe the closer to his father In these sixe effects these two feares are differenced 4. And lastly they differ in regard of time and duration To wind them up together Slavish feare dreads not GOD in prosperity when all things smile and succeed according to expectation wish Because the wicked have no changes Psal 55.19 sayth the Psalmist therefore they feare not God He that filially feares God feares him at all times you may imagine it to be a misery a bondage to be alwaies in feare but the contrary is true of this feare Happy is that man that feareth alwayes Pro. 28.14 sayth Salomon The righteous man feares not God by fits and starts Hee feares most when hee is most prosperous He thinkes that the greatest calmes are but fatall and immediate fore-runners of the lowdest tempests When the Churches had rest and comfort in the holy Ghost Acts 9.31 even then they walked in the feare of the Lord. They think with St. Bernard Tum magis irascitur cum non irascitur Bern. when they are spared too long that then God is most angry when hee seemes least angry When they sinne unpunished they cry with Saint Austin Nâ—leâ—â—re in sâ—â—â— erdiam Aug. Lord let mee have none of this mercie lest it prove but a reservation of mee to greater misery In a word hee that feares God slavishly feares little longer than the rod is on his backe It was the guise of K. Pharaoh 1 King 21. three last reâ—ses and K. Ahab when the pang was off they stil hardened their hearts and ran their old Bias. 1 King 12.18.19 We finde Ahab fasting and humbling himselfe in one Chapter and the next newes we heare of him in the next Chapter is he is quarrelling with the Prophet for telling the truth Nay this feare turnes into a greater security as the anvill is harder for beating as hot water cooling growes colder than ever it was afore But the filiall feare of God is a lasting feare it endures for ever saith David Psal 19.9 the spirit of the feare of the Lord is not flitting Esay 11.2 it rests on him on whom it pitches Let us all try our faces at this glasse it is no flattering one it will tell you truely whether your feare bee of the right stampe whether stampe whether it will stand you in stead or no. CHAP. X. Of those signes that discover whether we feare God more than man or man more than God THere are signes of a third rank that will make a full discovery to us whether we feare man more than God or God more than man 1. They that study more to please man than to please God they that passe not to displease God so they humour men they feare man more than God If I yet seeke to please men Gal. 1.10 I am no servant of Christ As if he should say I cannot feare Christ as a servant shold feare his master if I seeke to please men Would any of you judge that a servant did feare his master more than other men if his daily care were to please other men rather than his master Gal. 3.22 It is not for nothing that Saint Paul opposeth man pleasing to fearing of God implying that light and darknesse can as well consist together as sycophanticke slavish pleasing of man can stand with the feare of God Who doubts but that at that time Aaron feared man more than God when to condescend to the peoples fancie hee made gods for them to worship in Moses absence Exod. 32.22.23.24 Whether did Pilate feare God or man most when to content the people hee released Barabbas Mark 15.15 and delivered Iesus to bee crucified When Herod the King vexed the Church of God and killed Iames with the sword Acts 12.1.2 3. and because he saw it pleased the Ieas hee proceeded further to take Peter also as it is writ of him will any man say that Herod feared God more than man On the contrary part they that feare God more than man though in all indifferent things hee will please men as St. Paul testifies of himselfe 1 Cor. 10. last verse I sayth he please all men in all things that is in all lawfull things for the profit of many that they may be saved 1 Cor 9.20.21.22 Vnto the Iewes sayth hee I became as a Iew that I might gaine the Iewes to them that are under the law as under the law that I might gaine them that are under the law to them that are without law as without law that I might win them to the weake I became as weake that I might gain the weake I am made all things to all men that I might by all meanes gaine some Yet in those things that are not adiaphorous indifferent but either necessary or unlawfull they will not yeeld a haires bredth though to please the greatest and their best benefactors And therefore the question of those that feare God is not what man but what God will bee pleased with as it was their question though with other intention in the Prophet Micha 6.7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of Rammes or with ten thousand rivers of oyle 1 Thess 2.4 We speak sayth Saint Paul not as pleasing man but God who trieth our hearts That preacher who feares God more than man will in the pulpit speake his conscience with modesty good discretion even to the faces of the highest Grandees and Magnificoes of the World though hee knowes it will prove harsh untuneable and unwelcome to their eares When King Ahab sent for Michaiah to prophesie to him hee was desired to speake as the Prophets afore him spake that which was good and might please the King his answer was 1 King 22.13.14 As the Lord lives what the Lord sayth unto me that I will speake As if he should say Tel not mee what other Prophets have sayd what God puts into my
mouth I wil speak be it good for the king or not good whether it please him or displease him This was a fearer of God indeed 2. They feare man more than God who will rather obey the commandment of man than of God Rom. 6.16 His servants you are sayth S. Paul him you reverence and feare whom you obey That subject that will disobey his God to obey a magistrate that childe who will disobey his Father in heaven to obey his earthly father that servant who will disobey his heavenly master Eph. 6.5 to obey his master according to the flesh that subject that sonne that servant fears man more than God Psal 36.1 The transgression of the wicked against Gods law testifies sayth David that there is no feare of God afore his eyes Whereas they that feare God more than man will infinitely preferre obedience to God afore obsequiousnesse to man None are more obedient to man than those that feare God in what is agreeable with or not contrary to the wil of God But if God command one thing and man another they desire to bee pardoned if they take leave to obey the more supreme And therefore when the Councell asked S. Peter and the other Apostles why they preached in the name of Iesus when they had strict command to the contrary their answer was Acts 5.28.29 Wee ought to obey God rather than men And when the Councell called them and commanded them not to preach in Christ his name they returned this answer Acts 4.18.19 Whether it bee right in the sight of God to hearken to you rather than unto God judge yee 3. They feare man more than God that would not abstaine from sinne but onely for the feare of man Herod would have put Iohn Baptist to death Mat. 14.5 but that hee feared the multitude And the chiefe Priests and Pharisies would have layd hands on Christ but that they feared the people Math. 21. last verse who took Christ for a Prophet The Captaine and the officers brought the Apostles gently and without violence Acts 5.26 because sayth the Text they feared the people lest they should have stoned them Among us many feare stealing and murdering because they feare hanging Many feare neglect of comming to Church and to the Communion because they feare presenting Many feare adultery an fornication because they feare discovery the losse of their good name and temporall mulcts Oderunt peccare mali formidine poenae And what is all this but to feare man more than God On the other part they that feare God more than man will feare to commit those sinnes on which the law of man takes no hold As Iob made a conscience of looking upon a mayd to lust after her Iob. 31.1.1 A fault not liable humane censure 4. They feare man more than God that will omit their duty or commit any sinne for the threats of men Isa 57.11 Of whom hast thou been afraid that thou hast lied sayth God Not of God but of man King Saul by his owne confession transgressed the commandment of the Lord 1 Sam. 15.24 because hee feared the people Pope Marcelline in the time of heathenish persecution for feare of death offredincense to divels as he after confest with griefe as many Papists in their writings make mention On the contrary part they that feare God more than man wil not betray a tittle of truth to save their lives They will dye afore they wil yeeld so much as a knee in an idolatrous way or withhold any part of Gods worship from him or in any kinde make shipwracke of a good conscience You finde two famous examples hereof in the prophesie of Daniel The one was this Nebucl adnezzar threatned the three children Shadrach Meshech and Abednego that if at the sounding of the musicke they did not fall downe and worship the golden Image that hee had set up they should be cast in the houre of their refusall into the midst of a fiery furnace But what answer did they returne This Dan. 3.15.16.17.18 O Nebuchadnezzar wee are not carefull to answere thee in this matter Our God whom wee serve is able to deliver us out of thy hand O King But if not be it knowne unto thee O King that wee will not worship the golden image that thou hast set up An heroical resolution The other example is this K. Darius sealed a decree Dan. 6.7.8 9 10. that whosoever should aske a petition of any God or man for thirty dayes hee should bee cast into the den of Lions Yet for all this Daniel knowing of the signing of this decree went into his house opened his window toward Ierusalem and kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed to God Hee would not onely not omit to pray but hee would not forbeare the usuall ceremonies in praying of bowing the knee of opening his window toward Ierusalem So little the feare of man swayed him Theodoret and Nazianzen relate of S. Basil Nullam syllabam ds vinarum scrâ—pturarum in discrimen venire patiuntur c. that hee would say That those that feed upon Gods word will not suffer the least sillable of it to come into hazard Nos câ—â—teris humiliores sumus omnibus ubiverò de side agitur minimè timidi apparemus And againe that hee would say we are in all other things modest yeelding but when matters of faith and religion are in controversie we are not timorous then but as bold as Lions And againe that hee would say to Modestus a potent man Vse all your power against me Potestate tua contra me utare nunquam persuadebis you shall never perswade mee to subscribe to your Arrian heresie These men feared God more that man And we will not wonder that grace infuses such a courage into the fearers of God when we shall heare the answeres of Elvidius Priscus a heathen ito Vespasian the Emperour The Emperour commanded him not to come on such a day to the Senate or if hee came to speake as hee would have him Hee answered that hee was a Senator and therefore it was fit that hee should be at the Senate And if being there hee were required by the rest to render his opinion hee must speake freely and according to his conscience The Emperour threatned him that he should dye then He replyed that hee knew hee was not im mortall and hee added Doe what you will I will doe what I ought It is in your power to kill me but it is in my power to dye constantly Think but on this heathen and then you will beleeve that grace can make the faithfull much more spirited they building upon better grounds than any heathen could Princes sayth David did sit and speak against me Psal 119.23.109.110.161 yet I meditated in thy statutes And again My life is continually in my hand yet I forget not thy law The wicked
him 1 Pet. 2.17 Feare God honour the King sayth S. Peter Children must feare their parents Yee shall feare every man his mother and his father Leuit. 19.3 sayth Moses God in their parents and their parents in and for God First God and then their parents Wives must feare and reverence their husbands Let the wife see that shee feare her husband Eph. 5. last verse sayth Saint Paul Servants must feare their masters Servants be obedient to your masters according to the flesh Col. 3.22 with feare and trembling sayth Saint Paul who else-where conjoynes the obedience to masters with the feare of God Servants sayth he bee obedient to your masters in all things Ephes 6.5 not with eye-service but in singlenesse of heart fearing God That is fearing God in their masters and their masters for Gods sake 8. Wee must feare God above all the creatures in the world though all their force and vigour were united together This is the meaning of that of our Saviour Mat. 10.28 Feare not them that can kill the body but are not able to kill the soule but seare him who is able to kill both body and soule Feare not him that can kill the body that is feare not him so much as God Shal wee feare the creature and not God for whose sake only wee feare the creature for what strength hath any creature where with God invests it not What can any creature doe for thee or against thee that God cannot doe What can any man doe against or for thee that God doth not permit and that he cannot interupt or revoke The strength of all creatures combined together is but infirmity weaknes to Gods power human policy is folly to Gods wisdome Wee feare a giant more then an infant a mountaine then a molchill a flame then a sparke a sea then a drop why then feare wee not God more then al things Lastly We must feare God alwayes constantly without intermission or interruption In youth in age in adversity in prosperity Iosh 4.24 That you might feare the Lord your God for ever sayth Ioshua 1 Kings 18.12 I have feared the Lord my God from my youth Psal 72.5 saith Obadiah They shall feare then as long as the Sunne Pro. 23.17 and moone endureth sayth David Bee thou in the feare of the Lord all the day long saith Salomon Many duties there are that are sometimes out of season but the feare of the Lord never Thus I have displayd afore the readers eye the manner how wee ought to manage our feare of God Wherein I have studied plainenes to leave the lowest capacities without excuse In matter of direction in a duty wherin depends life or death it is absurd to walke in clouds or to use the enticing words of mans wisedome CHAP. XVII The meanes whereby the feare of God may bee wrought and increased Next to the manner how wee ought to feare God The meanes whereby this feare is ordinarily ingenerated confirmed and increased come next to hand 1. Bee a companion of all them that feare God Psal 119.63 as David professeth that hee was The company of bold fool-hardy wretches that dare venture upon any sinne is the next way to make thee who ever thou art fearelesse and carelesse till sudden unrecouerable mischief fal upon thee Megnâ— tibi cusledia necessariaest qui ante oculos judicis vivis cuncta cernentis Bern. Medit. 2. The hourely consideration of Gods al-secing ey will keepe the feare of God lively and fresh in the heart That man cannot but bee fearefull and carefull that thinkes with himselfe that hee lives alwayes in the eyes of such a Iudge that is the great and unswayed spectator of all things 3. Reade and heare the word of God frequently and diligently there O Christian thou wilt finde what God is and what the fear of God is and what unanswerable reasons thou hast to feare him Deut 4.10 Gather the people sayth God I will make them heare my words that they may learne to feare me All the people shall heare and feare sayth Mâ—ses And againe Deut. 17.13 Deut 31.13 that their children may heare and learne to feare the Lord. The soule is in the care what knowest thou but that upon thy constant attendance on this sacred ordinance God may strike the speeding blow and worke his feare in thee Lastly we must daily and zealously pray to him whom we ought to feare to implant this his feare in us David will put words into our mouthes Psal 86. â—1 Lord unite my heart to feare thy name Arowse our drowsie leaden and secure spirits and cause the spirit of thy feare to rest upon us that at all times in all places above all things we may feare thee Much more might be added but he who conscionably uses these meanes cannot bee a stranger to the feare of GOD. You will say these means are but ordinary and plaine The better what wise Phisitian will goe a chymicall curious way to cure a patient when knowne remedies will doe the deed That were onely to try conclusions upon the patient Wee use to say plain iron may do that Ferrwn potest quod aurum non potest that gold cannot doe You cannot now say the way is dark for you have had sufficient direction nor that the well is deepe and you have no bucket to draw with for wholesome meanes have been prescribed If we now feare not God it is because we will not The next worke then must bee to bow our perverse wils and to provoke our cold dull affections to this transcendent grace CHAP. XVIII Arguments for and motives unto the feare of God AND now what incentives shall I use to worke our affections to this feare Let us looke but upon Gods little booke his word and upon his great booke of nature the world and there is no line in the one nor thing in the other but argueth hard and powerfully pleadeth for the feare of God But not to let my discourse loose into a hedgelesse field let us remember 1. The surpassing excellencie of this grace in it selfe It is an epitome an abstract of all religion That which Moses calleth feare Deu. 6.13 our Saviour quoting that place Mat. 4.10 calles worship And in the Greeke the same words doe signifie feare and religion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if all religion lay in this feare When the Scripture would â—â—â—escribe a good 〈◊〉 denominateth 〈◊〉 from the feare of God As a tradesman commonly takes his name from that wherein hee most dealeth It was the stile of Obadiah Hee feared God greatly 1 Kin. 18.3 And of Hananiah Hee feared God above many Nehe. 7.2 And of Iob Hee feared God Nay Iob 1.1 the feare of God is the Alpha and Omega Et principuna praeâ—ipuum the beginning and end the complement and perfection of all Salomon calles it Pro. 1.7 Eccl.