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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

his heart smot him for cutting off but the skirt of K. Saul his garment 1 Sam. 24.4.5 Let the Pope whose religion is rebellion Forme of prayer on Novem. 5. and whose faith is faction perswade his mis-led fooles and his sworne slaves that to feare God and to kill Kings at his command are two vertues of one house Iam. 3.17 They whose religion is from above pure and peaceable know that light and darknesse heaven and hell God and the divell may as well have fellowship together The feare of God doth neither make voyd nor weaken this feare of observance towardes man but rather confirme and establish it 2. Wee may filially feare God and yet feare man with a feare of caution that is wee may feare the persecution and the societie of evill men 1. Wee may feare their persecutions our Saviour will justifie us in it Behold sayth he I send you forth as sheepe in the midst of wolves Mat. 10.16.17.23 Be yee therefore wise as Serpents and beware of men for they will deliver you up to the Councels they wil scourge you in their Synagogues But when they shall persecute you in one Citie flye into another Moses fled from Pharaoh David from Saul Eliah from Iezebel Nay our Saviour himselfe from the Iewes Luke 4.29.30 when they would have cast him downe a hill When Athanasius was persecuted by the Arrians hee made this motion to his friends Secedamus ad tempus nubecula est quae citò evanescet Let us step aside for a time till this tempest bee overpast it will not bee long afore this little cloud vanishes And when his persecutors upbraided him with his flight he returned this answer to them Si sugere mihi turpe vobis me persequi turpius If it be a shame for me to flie it is a greater shame for you to persecute me Thus we may feare persecution 2. We may feare the societie of bad men both for the infection and the danger of it 1. We have just cause to feare the contagion of ill company Grex totus magris unius scabie cadit Iuv. Cum inter homines fui redeo inbumanior Sen. When I have been among men sayth Seneca I returne from them more inhumane Beware sayth Christ of false prophets who come to you in sheeps clothing Mat. 17.15 but within are ravening wolves Like our sneaking Masse-priests that pretend a pitty towardes our soules Haeretici sub specie corsulendi agunt negotium seducendi Greg. Mot. but their end is to make us seven-fold more the children of the Divell Heretickes act seducers under the habits of Counsellors And of such Saint Paul forewarnes us gives us their Character Traytors heady 2 Tim. 3.4.5 high-minded having a forme of godlinesse but denying the power thereof From such turne away 2. We have authority for fearing as the infection so the danger of ill societie by no lesse than a voyce from heaven Come out from Babylon my people Rev. 18.4 lest you bee partakers of her sins and of her plagues We read in Ecclesiasticall history that S. Iohn the Apostle being in a Bath at Ephesus wherin Cerinthus a grand Hereticke was bathing himselfe he leaped out of the Bath as if he had spied a serpent and with these words in his mouth I feare lest the ground should sink under me whereon such a mortall enemy of the truth stands So then the feare of God may stand with Nay what if I say it cannot stand without this kinde of feare of men Besides I must adde to prevent all mistake that Gods dearest saints and servants may bee tempted though not habitually yet actually to feare Man more than God The feare of man moved Abraham to deny his wife Sarah Gen. 20.2 so that shee might have beene exposed to Abimelechs lust The feare of K ng Saul moved Samuel to refuse to goe at Gods command 1 Sam. 16.1.2 to annoynt David King Davids feare of King Achish 1 Sam. 21.12.23 moved him to the dishonour both of religion and manhood to faine himselfe mad to scrabble on the dores and to let fall his spittle on his beard afore king Achish Ionah the Prophet Iona 1.2.3 his feare of the Ninivites moved him when hee was sent by God one way to flye another Iona 1.2.3 The feare of man moved Peter to deny Christ his master with an oath Mat. 26.69 and a bitter execration And yet when the Saints thus feare men 1. The Spirit of the feare of God hath residence in them Those that are in heaven are all spirit and no flesh the wicked on earth are all flesh and no spirit The saints on earth are partly flesh and partly spirit new converts are more flesh lesse spirit Ancient standers in the schoole of Grace are more spirit lesse flesh In all the faithfull there is a combate betweene the flesh and the spirit Gal. 5.17 The flesh and the spirit are contrary to each other so that we cannot doe the things that we would The spirit is willing but the flesh is weake A Christian betweene these two is like a peece of iron between two load-stones the one drawes one way and the other the other way like a horse under an unskilfull rider that spurres him on and reines him in Sometimes the spirit hath the better of the flesh sometimes the flesh hath the upper hand of the spirit sometimes the carnall feare of man prevailes against the filiall feare of GOD. When the Saints are thus shaken and winnowed by the reliques of sin in them and by the temptation of Sathan they are not hereby proved to bee chaffe though it appeares that they are not without chaffe 2. As this feare of men in good men is not separated from the true feare of God so neither from the true love of God When S. Peter denied Christ he did not hate Christ Non odio habendo Christum s●d scipsum nimis amando only he loved himselfe too much saith Saint Bernard It is one thing for a man to fall throgh the feare of the world another thing to fall through the love of the world for he that loves the world hates God if wee beleeve S. Iames Iam. 4.4 But hee that sometimes over-feares the world may yet both dearly love and sincerely feare God 3. When hee that feares God doth thus over-feare man hee doth it not with the uninterrupted swing of his affection but hee resists this carnall feare and heartily desires that it were wholly expelled and that the feare of God in him were perfect and unmixed Thy servants desire to feare thy name Nehem. 1.11 sayth Nehemiah The feare of man in them is a tyrant that forces their subjection not their King to whom they freely yeeld their homage 4. When the filiall fearers of God doe fall thus through the feare of men they fall not upon premeditation but suddenly beeing surprized by