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A72993	A Romane centurion becomming a good souldier of Iesus Christ In foure sermons, preached in the cathedrall church, and in Saint Thomas Church at Sarum. By Bartholomevv Parsons, B.D. and rector of Ludgershall, in the county of Wiltes.	Parsons, Bartholomew, 1574-1642.	1635 (1635)	STC 19350.5; ESTC S124821	64,942	95

ista ne oftensus absced at ibidem faith and charity as the bristle leadeth the thread into that which is sowed it is the comparison of Augustine and Bernard And this servile feare proceeding from the spirit of bondage cannot take possession in that soule that hath received the spirit of adoption perfect love casteth it out as the thread entring driveth out the bristle that lead it the other the son●ke feare agreeth with the spirit of adoption and they dwell together like brethren in one as Anselms said of old Simeon Luke 2. Hee both feared with love and loved with feare and as Cassian in Psal 32. He that feareth God well loveth him also hee that loveth him feareth him also those things are joyned together in the heavenly devotion Thus the Fathers distinguish and reconcile these doubts A man feareth with a servile feare least he● should be judged to the torments of punishment with the other least the grace of Gods benefits should be lost feare is not in charity because perfect charity casteth out feare but that servile is when a man abstaineth himselfe from an evill worke hee is terrified with punishment not delighted with righteousnesse This charity casteth forth which delighteth in none iniquitie although an impunity were set before it Not that whereby the soule feareth least it should loose that grace which hath wrought in it that it should not delight in sinning whereby it feareth least God should forsake it although he should punish it with no tormenting sorrow This is a chast feare charity casteth not this out but joyneth it to it selfe of it also is it written the feare of the Lord is chast and remaineth for ever and ever saith Austin And hee illustrateth it by this comparison there an adulterous and chast wife both feare their husbands but with this difference Shee feareth least her husband should returne angry the other least hee should depart away displeased she will say I feare mine husband least hee should condemne me● Illa dicer timeovirum ne damnet ista dicet timeo virum ne deserat pone haec in animo invenies timorem quem foris mittit charitas alium castum timorem permanen●em in seculum seculi Aug. in Epist Ioh. tract in Evang. Ioh tract 43. Est timor servilis est timor castus est timor ne patiaris poenam alius timor ne amittas justitiam Timor ille nepatiaris paenam servilis est Quid magnum est timerepaenam Hoc nequissimus servus hoc crudelissimuslatro Non est magnum timere paenam sed magnum est amare justitiam qui ergo amat justitiam nihil times Timet planè non ne incidat in paenam sed ne amitta● justitiam Ipse est timor domini castus ipse permanet in seculum seculi non ●um tollit charitas nec foris mittit sed magis complectitur comitem tenet simul possidet the other will say I feare mine husband least he should forsake me Consider these things in thy minde and thou shalt finde a feare which charity casteth out and another chast feare abiding for ever and ever And in his 43. tract upon Iohn There is a servile feare and a chast feare there is a feare least thou shouldest suffer punishment and another feare least thou shouldest loose righteousnesse That feare least thou shouldest suffer punishment is servile And what great matter is it to feare punishment This doth the lewdest servant and the cruellest thiefe It is no great thing to feare punishment but it is a great thing to love righteousnesse Hee therefore that loveth righteousnesse feareth nothing Hee feareth plainely not least hee should fall into punishment but least hee should loose righteousnesse It is the chast feare of the Lord it remaineth for ever and ever charity taketh not away nor casteth it out but rather imbraceth it and keepeth for a companion and possesseth it together And Bernard saith that the chast holy feare which feareth not God for the paines or torments of hell but with reverence and love abideth for ever but that which feareth him for the paines of hell is servile and perfect charity casteth out it Sens de mode benè vivendj serm 4 serm 19. Gilleberti super Cant. Secondly in that the religion and workes of Correlius are here well reported of before Christ Iesus was preached unto him the Rhemists would hence collect that men knowing God the Creator and not beleeving in Christ may before justification and faith doe workes pleasing to God and acceptable preparatives to the grace of justification and which comming of Gods grace deserve of Gods hands congruity towards justification Rhemists on the place but they gather that which the holy Ghost never scattered heere For Cornelius was not without faith otherwise how could hee please God whom without faith it is impossible to please Heb. 11.6 Hee knew not that the Messias was already come and had fulfilled all things that were written of him but hee beleeved as a true Proselite in the Messias to come and like old Simeen he waited for the consolation of Israel Luk. 2. That hee was of the Iewish religion both his conformity with them in prayers verse 30. and their good opinion of him verse 22. demonstrateth Cornelius cuius el●●mosynae ante baptismum Angelo testante laudantur non operibus ad fidem sed fide venit adopera Si enim ante baptismum deo non credebat quomodò oraret aut quomodò hunc deus exaudiret Greg Per●idem venit ad opera in fideverò solidatur peropera Nec tamen sine aliqua fide donabat orabat Nam quomodò inv●cabat in quem non crediderat Aug. de praedest sanct cap. 7. Cornelius whose almes saith Gregory before his baptisme are commended by the testimonie of the Angell came not by his workes unto faith but by faith came to works For if before his baptisme hee did not beleeve in God how did hee pray or how did God heare him by faith then hee came to workes but by workes hee was established in the faith And Austin saith that be did not give almes and pray without some faith For how did he call upon him in whom hee had not believed Wee see heere then in what sense and sort Cornelius is a devout man and a fearer of God Now our learning lying in all that is written wee must learne hence to bee followers of Cornelius and walke as we have him for an ensample what wee heare and see in him wee must doe be religious and devout worshippers of God serving him in feare Psal 2. Sanctifying the Lord of hostes and making him our dread and feare Isa 8.13 For what else doth the Lord require of all his Israell but to feare the Lord his God to walke in all his wayes and to love him and serve him with all his heart and with all his soule and cleave to him Deut. 10.12.20 and cap. 6.13

to feare and serve him in sincerity and truth Ios ●4 14 And being the Lord yea the Lord of Lords of necessitie feare is due to him as hee reasoneth himselfe a sonne honoureth his Father and a servant his Master if then I be a father where is mine honour if I be a Master where is my feare Mal. 1.6 Feare the Lord all yee his Saints Psal 34.9 And this is not an old Commandement belonging onely to them that were under the old Covenant but renewed also to us that are under the Covenant of grace passe the time of your Sojourning here in feare 1 Pet. 1.17 Nay it is not onely the voyce of God by his Apostle but by an Angell speaking with a lowd voyce feare God and give glory to him and worship him that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountaines of waters Rev. 14.7 Yea by many Angels who will not feare thee O Lord and glorifie thy name for thou onely art holy for all nations shall come and worship before thee for thy judgments are made manifest Rev. 15.4 Religion and the feare of God hath ever bin the fairest flowre in the Garland of all the worthies in Scripture that have gone before us and remembred either before or without all their worldly riches honours triumphes and trophies When God had tryed Abraham the father of the faithfull to the uttermost and would give him the highest commendation it is in these termes I know that thou fearest mee Gen. 22.12 Ioseph would make himselfe knowne to his brethren for one that feared God Gen. 42.18 and so was of their spirituall kindred before he revealed himselfe to be their brother after the flesh And the greatest title that God giveth to Moses after all the great things he had done by him is this Moses my servant Ios 1.2 It is the first thing in description and commendation of Iob that he was a perfect and vpright man and one that feared God Iob. 1.1 and of old Simeon who had the honour to see Christ both carnally and spiritually that he was a just and devout man Luk. 2.25 And this duty of religion piety his service worship and feare God is not content to prescribe by precept propose by patterne but he doth also presse it to us by the profit of it by the blessings earthly and heavenly spirituall and temporall of this life and the life to come that shall be heaped on them that feare him walke in his Commandements and leade a godly life I need not gather them as they are scattered vp and downe in Scripture the Apostle hath conjoyned and comprehended them together 1 Tim. 4.8 having bid Timothy exercise himselfe to Godlinesse piety he addeth that it is profitable to all things having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come so happy shall they be so well shall it be with them that feare God and walke in his wayes Psal 1.28.1.2 But because wee are so forward to flatter nay to deceive our selves with shewes of piety when we deny the power thereof with false imaginations of the feare of God when wee doe not make him our dread and our terrour I will give you some of the principall markes of true piety and the feare of God wherby we may learne whether we doe but lispe out the Sibboleth of Godlinesse from the lips and mouth or else doe indeed sound out the true Shibboleth of piety fearing and serving of God from the heart and inward affections Iud. 12.6 I will I say give you some principall markes for it is long if not impossible to describe and discerne all as it would be in directing a travailer to acquaint him with every petty marke in his way and not to be content with relating the most eminent to him Now the markes for discerning true piety and the feare of God in us are either general or special There is a total or general shunning the wayes of wickednesse and running the wayes of Gods Commandements The wise man exhorting to feare God doth presently adde as a meanes or marke thereof and depart from evill Prov. 3.7 yea hee saith more plainely that the feare of God is to hate evill Pro. 8.13 And when Iob is commended for the feare of God this is presently added as a true signe thereof that he eschwed evill Iob 1.1 when the Preacher would tell us what is the conclusion of the whole matter and the whole duty of man hee saith it is to feare God and keepe his Commandements Eccl. 12.13 making that an undoubted evidence of Gods feare as God himselfe wishing there were an heart in the Israelites alwayes to feare him expresseth what it is to feare him in the words following and keepe his Commandements Deut. 2.29 Hee that feareth God neglecteth nothing Qui timet Deum nil negligit timere deum est nulla quae facienda sunt bona praeterire Greg. in Mor. Solus est Dei timor qui mentes corrigit fugat crimina innocentiam servat omnis boni tribuit facultatem Chrys in homil de Ioh. Bapt. to feare God is to omitte no good things that are to be done saith Gregory And Chrysostome againe It is onely the feare of God that correcteth mens mindes chaseth away crimes preserveth innocency and giveth an ability to doe all good On the contrary when wee will wallow in wickednesse drinke up iniquity like water lye in sinne and love it love it and leave it not when they consent unto the theeues and are partakers with the adulterers when they give their mouthes to evill and frame deceit with their tongue when they speake against their brother and slander their owne mothers sonne Psal 50.20 Nay when they set their tongues at libertie to blaspheme Gods great and fearefull name when they suffer their hearts to be overcome with surfeting and drunkennesse when their hands are full of iniquity and their feete swift to shed bloud when they can defraud and oppresse one another in bargaining selling and buying when nothing standeth in their way that maketh for their pleasure profit advancement revenge or the like or yet when they will not goe to a thorough reformation of themselves but flatter and favour themselves in some darling sinne like Naaman that would serve God and yet be borne withall in going to the Idols temple and bowing there to please his earthly master like Herod who would heare Iohn Baptist willingly doe many things readily and yet keepe his Minions too Marke 6. there is no sound seruice or sincere feare of God in them though they make a shew of Godlinesse in standing before God in his house either taking his word in their mouthes and preaching his statutes or hearing his word and will and shewing much love with their mouthes making many prayers unto him partaking of his spirituall meate and spirituall drinke and performing all outward obsequies and services unto him his Saints that truely feare him doe sincerely hate all false