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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65309	Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the sixteen, seventeen and eighteen verses : seasonable for the times / by Thomas Watson ...	Watson, Thomas, d. 1686.	1682 (1682)	Wing W1139; ESTC R34736	91,573	245

deal not Foolishly and to the wicked lift not up the Horn. 1. Are not they Fools who gratifie their Enemy They who want the Fear of God do so Satan baits his hook with pleasure and profit and they swallow bait and hook and all this pleaseth Satan mens sins feast the Devil Who but a Fool would humour his enemy 2. Is it not folly to preferre Slavery before Liberty if a Slave in the gally should have his freedom offered him but he should say he had rather Tug at the Oar and be a slave than have his liberty would not he be Judged indiscreet Such is the case of him who Fears not God The Gospel offers to free him from the miserable captivity of Sin but he chooseth rather to be a slave to his lusts He is like the Servant under the Law Exod. 21.5 I love my Master I will not go out free He was displeased with a year of Iubilee The Foolish sinner had rather have his Ear bored to the Devils service than be translated into the Glorious liberty of the Sons of God Rom. 8.21 3. Is not he a Fool who having but one Jewel will venture the loss of it The Soul is this Jewel and the sinner is fearless of it he will throw it away upon the world as if one should throw Pearls and Diamonds at Pear-trees Ephrem Syrus used to say He who Pampers his body and neglects his Soul is like him who feasts his Slave and starves his Wife 4. Is not he a Fool who refuseth a rich offer if one should offer to adopt another and make him Heir of his Estate and he should refuse it would not his discretion be called in question God offers Christ to a sinner and promiseth to entail all the riches of Heaven upon him but wanting the Fear of God he refuseth this Great offer Psalm 81.11 Israel would none of me Is not this a Prodigy of madness may not the Devil beg every sinner for a Fool at the last day 15. The Fear of God is a Soveraign Antidote against Apostasie the Devil was the first Apostate How rife is this sin more shipwracks are at Land than at Sea men make shipwrack of a Good Conscience Apostates are said to put Christ to open shame Heb. 6.6 The Fear of God is a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a preservative against Apostacy Ier. 32.40 I will put my Fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from me I will so love them that I will not depart from them and they shall so Fear me that they shall not depart from me 15. There are excellent Promises made to them that Fear God Malach. 4.2 Vnto you that Fear my Name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his Wings Here is a promise of Christ he is a Sun for Light and Vivifical Influence and a Sun of Righteousness as he diffuseth the Golden beams of Justification And he hath healing in his Wings the Sun heals the Air dries up the Cold moistures exhales the Vapours which would be Pestilential so Christ hath healing in his Wings he heals the hardness and impurity of the Soul And the Horison in which this Sun ariseth is in hearts Fearing God To you that Fear my Name shall the Sun of righteousness arise And there is another Great Promise Psalm 115.13 He will bless them that Fear the Lord both Small and Great God blesseth such in their Name Estate Souls And this blessing can never be reversed As Isaac said I have blessed him and he shall be blessed Gen. 27.33 Such as Fear God are priviledged Persons none can take away from them either their birth-right or their blessing 16. Fear is an admirable Instrument in Promoting Salvation Philip. 2.12 Work out your Salvation with Fear Fear is that flaming Sword which turns every way to keep sin from entring Prov. 6.16 Fear stands Sentinel in the Soul and is ever upon it's Watch-Tower Fear causeth circumspection he who walks in Fear treads warily Fear begets Prayer and Prayer engageth the help of Heaven 17. The Lord is much pleased with such as Fear him Psalm 147.11 The Lord taketh pleasure in them that Fear him In the Septuagint it is The Lord bears Good will towards them that Fear him Pagnin and Buxtorf render it The Lord delights in them that Fear him Never did Suitor take such pleasure in a Person he loved as God doth in them that Fear him they are his Hephsibah or chief solace Isa. 62.4 He saith of them as of Sihon Psalm 132.14 Here is my rest for ever here will I dwell A sinner is a vessel in which is no pleasure Hosea 8.8 But Fearers of God are Favourites 18. Such as Fear God are the only persons that shall be saved Psalm 85.9 Salvation is nigh them that Fear him Salvation is said to be far from the Wicked Psalm 119.155 They and Salvation are so far asunder that they are like never to meet But Gods Salvation is nigh them that Fear him What do we aspire after but Salvation 'T is the end of all our Prayers Tears Sufferings Salvation is the Crown of our desires the flower of our joy And who shall be enriched with Salvation but the Fearers of God His Salvation is nigh them that Fear him Let these cogent arguments perswade to the Fear of God Let us put our selves upon a strict Scrutiny and Tryal whether we have the Fear of God planted in our hearts How may we know it 1. The Fear of God will make a man fear sin Gen. 39.9 How can I do this Great wickedness and sin against God indeed sin is the only Formidable thing this is the Gorgons Head that affrights it is the Evil of Evils 'T is the Poison the Old Serpent hath spit into our Virgin-nature In Sin is both Pollution and Enmity Sin is compared to a Thick Cloud Isa. 44.22 which not only hides the light of Gods Face but brings down showers of Wrath. Sin is worse than all penal evils there is more evil in a drop of Sin than in a Sea of Affliction 1. Sin is the cause of Affliction it conjures up all the Winds and Storms in the World Out of this Viperous womb come Mutinies Divisions Massacres and the cause is worse than the effect 2. In Affliction Conscience may be quiet the Hail may beat upon the Tiles when there is Musick in the room but Sin terrifies the Conscience Nero in the midst of Feasts and Roman sports was full of horrour of mind the numbers of men he had Killed troubled him Cataline was frighted at every noise Cain in Killing Abel stab'd half the World at one blow yet could not he Kill the Worm of his own Conscience Sin is the Spirits of Mischief distilled it puts a Sting into death 1 Cor. 15.56 It is worse than Hell 1. Hell is a burden only to the sinner but sin is a Burden to God Amos 2.13 2. There

and down in the World and which is worst these Jewels lye among rubbish they dwell among the Wicked Psalm 120.5 Wo is me that I dwell in the Tents of Kedar Kedar was Ishmaels Son Woe is me saith David that I live with an Ishmael-brood The Wicked are still molesting the Righteous Gods Jewels lye scattered among the unclean but here is the Comfort that shortly God will gather his People from among the Wicked he will make up his Jewels and all the Pearls and precious stones shall be by themselves in Bliss 2. It is Comfort in case of Dividing Gods People here are divided their love is so little it may almost lye upon a knives point they oft look strange one upon another these divisions are unseemly and are flaws in Gods Diamonds Discords among Christians brings a reproach upon Religion advanceth Satans Kingdom hinders the growth of Grace Divisions are fatal and do presage Gods Judgments coming upon us Impius haec tam cult a novalia miles habebit Barbarus has segetes Enquò discordiacives Perduxit miseros But this is Comfort God will shortly make up his Jewels he will so gather his Saints together that he will unite them together they shall be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all of one Heart Act 2.46 What an happy time will it be when the Saints shall be as so many Pearls upon one string and shall accord together in a blessed Unity 2. Gods making up his Jewels implies his perfecting his Saints Then a thing is said to be made up when it is perfected you make up a Garment when you perfect it you make up a Watch when you put all the Wheels and Pins in perfect order so Gods making up his Jewels signifies his perfecting them The Godly in this Life are imperfect they cast but a faint lustre of Holiness they receive but the first-fruits of the Spirit Rom. 8.23 that is a small measure of Grace the first-fruits under the Law were but an handful to the whole Vintage This may humble us to consider if we are Jewels yet imperfect our knowledge is checker'd with Ignorance 1 Cor. 13.5 Our love to God is feeble Behold here Clouds in the Diamond This may take down our Top-sail of Pride to consider how incompleat we are but when God shall make up his Jewels and perfect his Saints it will be a glorious time and this brings me to the second Question What is that day when God will make up his Jewels 1. God makes up his Jewels at the day of Death then he makes the Saints Graces perfect 2. He makes up His Jewels at the day of the Resurrection then he makes the Saints Bodyes perfect 1. God makes up His Jewels at the day of death then he makes the Saints Graces perfect Hence it is the Saints departed are called the Spirits of just men made perfect Heb. 12.23 Sin doth mix and incorporate with a Christian he cannot write a Copy of Holiness without blotting Grace though it doth abate yet not abolish Corruption but at Death God makes up His Jewels he perfects the Graces of his People Will not that be a blessed Time never to have a Vain thought more never to be within the sight of a temptation or the fear of a Relapse This me thinks may make death desirable to the Godly then the Lord will make up his Jewels he will compleat the Graces of his Children they shall be as holy as they desire to be and as God would have them to be How will Gods Diamonds sparkle when they shall be without flawes In that day of death when God makes up His Jewels the Saints 1. Light will be clear 2. Love will be perfect 1. Their Light will be clear They shall be so divinely irradiated that they shall know the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the deep things of God They shall in this sence be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Angels Mat. 22.30 Their Intellectuals shall be raised higher and made more capacious than in Innocency Through the Chrystal Glass of Christs Humane Nature the Saints shall have Glorious transparent sights of God they shall know as they are known 1 Cor. 13.12 A riddle too mysterious for us Mortals if not for Angels to expound 2. In that day the Saints Love will be perfect Love is the Queen of the Graces it out-lives all the other Graces In this life our love to God is luke-warm and sometimes Frozen a Believer weeps that he can love God no more but at the day of death when God makes up his Jewels then the Saints love shall be Seraphical the spark of Love shall be blown up into into a pure flame the Saints shall love God secundum actum as the Schoolmen speak as much as they are able they shall love him superlatively and indeficiently they shall be made up of love O blessed day of death when God shall make up his Jewels the Saints Graces shall shine forth in their Meridian Splendour 2. God makes up his Jewels at the day of the Resurrection then he makes the Saints bodyes perfect these like sparkling Diamonds shall shine in Glory At the Resurrection God is said to change the bodies of the Saints Phil. 3.21 How will he change them not that they shall be other bodies than they were before the substance of their bodies shall not be changed but the qualities as wooll when it is died into a Purple colour is not altered in the substance but quality and is made more illustrious so God in making up his Jewels will cause a greater resplendency in the Saints bodies than before When God makes up the Jewels of the Saints Bodies at the Resurrection they shall be perfect four wayes 1. In Amability or sweetness of Beauty Here the Bodies of the Righteous are oft deformed Leah hath her blear Eyes and Barzillai his lameness but at the Resurrection the bodies of the Saints shall be of unspotted fairness and no wonder for they shall be made like Christs Glorious body Phil. 3.21 2. When God at the Resurrection makes up the Jewels of the Saints bodies they shall have Perfection of parts Their bodies in this World may be maimed and dismembred but in the day of the Resurrection they shall have all the parts of their bodies restored Acts 3.21 Such as have lost an Eye shall have their Eye again such as want a Leg or an Arm shall have their Arm again 3. When God makes up the Jewels of the Saints bodies at the Resurrection they shall be Velocious and quick in their Motion Here the Bodies of the Saints move heavily but then they shall be sprightly and move swiftly from one place to another Here the body is a Weight in Heaven it shall be a Wing 4. When God makes up the Jewels of the Saints bodies they shall be Immortal the Body once Glorified shall never be Subject to death 1 Cor. 15.53 This corruptible shall put on Incorruption Heaven is an healthful Climate no Passing-Bell