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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51810	Catholick religion: or, The just test or character of every person that in any nation is accepted with God discovered, in an explication of the nature of the true fear of God, and working of righteousness, with which the same is connected. In some discourses upon Acts 10. 35, 36. Wherein several important doctrinal truths, more immediately influential upon practise, are plainly opened, and vindicated from their too common misunderstanding. By William Manning.	Manning, William, 1633?-1711.	1686 (1686)	Wing M491; ESTC R217102	67,577	173

Forgiveness with God or that he is a rewarder thereof The entrance of sin had laid man under the curse and so unhinged all Adam and his wife hid themselves to no purpose neither from the presence of the Lord God Gen. 3.8 It was the revelation of pardoning Mercy that retrieved and brought back again the fear of God or his worship into the world Take away the assurance of that namely that God is placable and there is no foundation of hope or encouraging motive left for service or obedience for the future If any of the sons of men were left as remediless as the Devils why then God would not expect this fear from them the belief of the contrary is the very first notion that God requireth our assent unto next to his Being in all our Addresses unto him Heb. 11.6 If the Lord were pleased to kill us be would not have received a burnt-offering at our hands Judg. 13.23 It was a good Argument the very prescription of worship to fallen man is a most sure Indication that he will deal with him upon new terms of Mercy This was the Faith of Cornelius and that which induced him unto the fear of God whilst as yet he little understood that without the Blood of God there is no remission Heb. 9.22 Or that the Offering of Christ at Jerusalem was the only way to it And are not they near as wide from the truth of the Gospel who admitting the Death of Christ to enter the Covenant Grant of Forgiveness would limit his Sacrifice only to the Elect saying that he obtained not remission for any more on any terms VVhat hath been said carrieth in it a demonstration to the contrary and reflects light into the extent of the Death of Christ It 's most certain that God hath prescrited his fear unto every sinner and as certain it is that he expects no love fear or new Obedience from them who antecedently thereunto can have no particular assurance that there is any forgiveness or acceptance with God for them much less would he exact of them to believe it if it were not so or thereupon to bottom their service or to return unto him on that supposition Either then Christ by the grace of God did taste death for every man Heb. 2.9 pro singulis generum or there is not forgiveness with God for them which yet was the Faith of Cornelius as short as it was that he might be feared or we must say that there is forgiveness with him for some men without respect to Christ or a Conditional Covenant grant thereof unto them never Ratified by or Founded in his Blood which is not the Christian Belief This then is the first sense to be understood of the fear of God it 's to pay Worship and Homage unto him nor can the fear of God be without it 2. It imports further an awe and reverence of his Divine Majesty reaching the mind and affections Sanctify the Lord of Hosts himself and let him be your fear and let him be your dread Isa 8.13 Fear ye not me saith the Lord will ye not tremble at my presence Jer. 5.22 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of his Saints and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him Psal 89.7 let all the earth fear the Lord and let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him Psal 33.8 stand in awe and sin not meaneth not a bare dread of his wrath a meer passion or fright or anguish of conscience respecting the guilt or danger of some atrocious sin or wickedness This may serve to restrain or to impel to some partial acknowledgment of God but serves not to any heart-change They feared the Lord and served their own Gods 2 King 17.33 unto this day they fear not the Lord v. 34. that is aright No! they were none of those that tremble at the commandment of God as it 's said Ezra 10.3 It imports a tenderness of Heart Because thy Heart was tender 2 Chr. 34.27 How shall I do this thing and sin against God saith Joseph It 's an habit of mind and Soul disposing to an aweful regard unto God aversation unto sin and jealousy of offending him The affections are the Wings and Feet of the Soul and have need to be ballanced with the awe of God in order to its flight from sin They shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days Hos 3.5 In a Pious Soul this fear hath in it a Contemperation of Love It 's no Bondage-fear 2 Tim. 1.7 It 's Conjugal without amazement So far as Love is perfected it casts out tormenting fear 1 Joh. 4.18 it brings into the liberty of the Gospel Rom. 8.15 And Moses said unto the people fear not for God is come to prove you and that his fear may be before your faces that ye sin not Exod. 20.20 Fear not yet fear and love him Deut. 10.12 Neither yet doth this filial fear of God Exclude the fear of everlasting Destruction from him in case or on the supposition of a Covenant breach or presumptuous finning against him Fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell saith our Saviour to his Disciples Mat. 10.28 Let us serve him with reverence and Godly fear for our God is a consuming fire Heb. 12.29 Know ye not that ye are the Temple of God and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you If any man defile the Temple of God him shall God destroy 1 Cor. 3.16 17. the flesh lusteth against the spirit Gal. 5.17 now the works of the flesh are manifest of which he gives a Catalogue v. 19. of the which saith he I tell you before as I have told you also in time past that they that do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God v. 21. nor of Christ Eph. 5.5 To be sure what ever God threats it behoveth every Pious Man to fear Be not high minded but fear Rom. 11.20 let him that standeth do so 1 Cor. 10.12 Obj. But it 's here Objected by many That all this is the voice of the Law of Works that such threats belong not to believers only that of Fatherly chastisement in case they sin If his children forsake my law c. I will visit their transgression with the rod my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him Psal 89.30 how then can the fear of Destruction in such case belong to a Believer or enter the Character of a true Fearer of God Ans The Objection lies deep and involveth in it a mistake in the whole Tenour of the Covenant of Life as it is the Instrument of Gods Government over Mankind one and other It proceeds upon these following false suppositions Namely 1. That Faith alone enters the condition of the New Covenant the Covenant which God hath Enjoyned unto us as the Apostle Phraseth it Heb. 9.20 contrary to Gen. 17.1 2. Psal 103.17 18. Exod. 24.7 8 c.