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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20573	A sermon preached at Saint Marie Spittle April. 10. 1615. By Thomas Anyan Doctour of Divinity, and president of Corpus Christi College in Oxon	Anyan, Thomas, 1580 or 81-1632.	1615 (1615)	STC 698; ESTC S115864	24,159	48

neere There is no man liuing but is assured that once hee must pay the tribute due vnto nature Death but because most men put death è longinquo farre from them and the eldest mā that is doth thinke hee may liue yet yet a day longer there is nothing in time of health lesse thought on thē sicknesse and throughout the whole course of our life lesse feared then death But when we apprehend a thing nociue as nociue a danger as a danger ready at hand for to assault vs then doth our dastard bloud retire to the fountaine of heate and what we cannot forcibly withstand that we seeke warily to decline Which eschewing of evill being a thing naturall and ingrafted in the heart of every man as he is a man is in it selfe neither good nor bad but good or bad according to the cause for which or the measure by which it is entertained Now because in diverse Texts of Scripture we read this passion of Feare commended and enioyned and else where forbidden and reprooued to reconcile this seeming opposition we must knowe that on the one side is commended a godly and religious feare on the other is reproued a diffident and perplexed feare the one is a remedie against desperation the other against presumption the one against diffidencie the other against securitie the one reprooues an anxious torturing feare which is without hope the other commends a cautelous and sollicitous feare in every man that stands to take heed lest he fall And if here any Auditour should demand how God can be feared being not only good but essentially Goodnesse it selfe and that nothing can bee feared but that which is evill or apprehended so to be I answere with Aquinas 2 a. 2. q. 19. a. 1. that as hope hath it's double obiect the one the good we pursue in expectation and the other the auxiliarie helpe by which wee hope to obtaine this good so feare hath it's double obiect the one is the evill which it eschewes and dreads the other is something from which this evill may proceed Now although God everlasting and blest for ever cannot in the first sense be said to bee feared or to be the obiect of feare yet in the second he may For although he be goodnesse it selfe yet something may be feared to proceed from him which is evill evill not in it's owne nature but evil in respect of him that feares which is indeed malum poenae not culpae an evill of punishment not of offence And for our direction in this point giue me leaue to note vnto you out of Aquinas a fourefold feare A Naturall a Worldly a Servile and a Filiall feare A naturall feare is nothing else but a providēt shunning of those dangers and mischeefes with which wee are not able to encounter Which passion is entayled to all the sonnes of Adam and made hereditary nor from it was our Saviour himselfe freed but as hee was a man he feared and therefore prayed and that often Father if it be possible let this cup passe from me The second is a worldly feare when for the safety of things temporall we sticke not to admit of things excluding from eternall when we more feare them that can kill the body only then him that can cast both body and soule into eternall fire when we startle at the least bluster of persecution when wee contract our selues at the touch of a pins point being ready at the least assault to leaue Christ for the loue of the world The servile feare is a slavish dread of the iudgements of God and his punishments for sinne when not for the loue of heaven but for feare of hell we retaine our selues within the circle of Gods Commandements The last best feare is a filial chast loving feare when we feare to commit sinne because it is sinne doe embrace vertue as it is vertue cùm non delectaret iniquitas quamvis proponeretur impunitas saith Ambrose Which feare is proper to Christs flocke which who so hath is accepted with God and may bee assured to liue for ever S t Austin in his 120. Epist ad Honoratum doth truely expresse and liuely effigiate the nature and difference of these two feares by the example of the two maried women th' one an adulteresse the other a chaste matrone These both feare their husbands but after a different manner The one feares the presence of her husband least comming home hee take her tardè the other feares the absence of her husband lest by his departure shee be deprived of his much desired company The one feares to commit adultery least her husband catch her her minde neverthelesse is adulterous quod deest operi inest voluntati saith Austin what shee wants in deed shee perfourmes in desire th' other feares her husband but t' is chastly lovingly nothing but his displeasure or absence Nam amanti etiam absentia molesta est So the wicked feare God with a base servile feare they feare him as a Iudge the godly as a Father The servile feare makes men to avoide sinne quia nocivum the filiall quia prohibitum onely because it is forbidden saith Almaine in his Morals He who hath a chast filtall feare doth not only avoide the act of sinne but a desire to commit the act but the servile feare restraines men only ab actu executorio saith Aquinas and leaues behinde velle complacentiae a desire to sinne In a word the servile feare doth tie vs vnto God with clampers of yron and fetters of brasse the filiall with bracelets of needle worke and chaines of gold by the one we receiue the spirit of adoption and cry Abba father by the other the spirit of bōdage againe vnto feare The servile feare saith Hales part 3. q. 06. respicit poenam aeternam vt destructivam subiecti the fil●al tanquam separativam et privativam à Deo By the one we feare the Iudgements of God and the paines of he●● by the other the losse of his grace the ioies of heaven The one is not Timor but Terror a passion mixt of horror and dismay the other sweetly composed of loue and an awfull regard The one is timor poenae th' other culpae the one the feare of the punishment the other of the offence th' one is the badge and brand of the reprobate the other the proper and inseparable character of the elect insomuch that Iacob the religious Father of the Patriarcks did cal God nothing else but the feare of his father Isaac Gen. 31. 42. This feare of God should binde vs hand and foote from sinne make vs thinke of that heavenly Vow of S t Anselmes Si hinc peccatum illinc infernum viderem ac vni eorum necessariò immergi deberem priùs me in infernum immergerem quàm peccatum cōmitterem If sinne saith he were on th' one side and hell on the other I had rather plunge my soule into the depth of hell then