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A15746	A sermon preached before the Kings Maiestie on Sunday the seventeenth of February last, at White-Hall by Dor VVren, the Master of St Peters Colledge in Cambridge, and his Maiesties chaplaine. Printed by command	Wren, Matthew, 1585-1667.	1628 (1628)	STC 26015; ESTC S120691	19,977	46

Master where is my Feare saith God to you that despise my Name But they wondred he should complaine They feared him and honoured him they were sure as they should doe and it may well be they meant it as we doe within in our hearts forsooth therefore they reply againe Despise Wherein have we despised thee vers 7. God tels them In that ye say The Table of the Lord is not to be regarded There 's one particular for them of the want of feare and honour And are there not of us that say the same The Table of the Lord and the House of the Lord and the Presence of the Lord would you know how we some of us regard it or what difference we put betwixt it and any other places A great deale lesse I am sure then some other For the Kings Presence and the places where but our betters are have a great deale more Reverence and Worship from us and we our selves expect a great deale more in the presence of our Inferiours And yet that 's Gods expresse argument against us there but that we now adayes are able to teach God better Logick Goe and do so to thy Prince now and see if he will be content with thee saith God ver 8. Worship not when thou comest in to Him beg any thing of Him not on thy knee bow not downe in honour of Him but be Iack-fellow sit still or be covered when He hath ought to doe with thee and will He accept thee And yet I am the greatest King of all saith the Lord of Hosts there in that Chapter But at this we snuffe and cry Ecce Labor oh here 's a doe indeed for Vncovering and Standing and Kneeling and Bowing but what reason is there we should be put to so much inconvenience and wearinesse in serving God who as himselfe is a Spirit so he requires but to be worshipt in Spirit and truth and he knowes our hearts well enough And was not that the very exception then of the Iewes also But ye have said It is a wearinesse ECCE LABOR and ye have snuffed at it saith the Lord of Hosts ver 13. And then what 's the Conclusion Therefore my name is and shall be fearefull among the Heathen saith he at the 14 verse God upbraids and threatens them with the Heathen their neighbours whose Idolatrous Religion exprest more feare of a God though then theirs And upbraided as well may we be and threatned too with the Erroneous Religions that neighbour about us for they are far more carefull to shew the holy Signes of feare then we And by that to say right they now stand the opinion and affection and devotion of the people I speake by some experience in liking of them and loathing of ours being by no one thing so much carried with them as 't is by the outward Worship and Reverence I should then but wrong our Nation of old when they first became English should I not make this a note of the excellent Spirit which then possessed them that as they lost almost all words of their owne language to signifie this passion of the minde which we meane by Feare so they borrowed none from other languages but onely this word Feare and that they brought from the Latine Vereri to shew that at first their noble Affections knew no feare but the feare of God Filiall and Reverentiall feare alone such as God himselfe we see would have his Worship performed by and our Religion exprest by And if once we come to loose that in our Religion our feare we shall soon come to loose Religion and all howe're we soothe our selves For that 's the way to hold even the right Religion also S. Paul saies flatly Hebr. 12.28 Wherefore having received such a kingdome the Gospel he meanes of Iesus Christ other kingdome we have received none let us hold the grace fast True that 's good counsell but how shall we doe that How shall we hold it It followes In serving him acceptably to his minde And how that With Reverence saith he and holy feare And wiser then thus whoe're thinks himselfe let him go try it with David that thinks him not so For Holy and Reverent is Gods Name saith he and then such a feare as this such as performes a holy Reverence to him and to his blessed Name that 's the feare of the Lord and the beginning of Wisdome Psal. 111.10 and A good understanding have all they that doe thereafter They onely Vnderstand aright vvhat Religion and Holinesse and the true Feare of the Lord is that without all hypocrisie have it truely within in their hearts and without all prophane contempt Expresse it also duely in the outward worship of him ANd thus make we the Expression of our feare of God to God himselfe But yet other Expressions there are of the same to Man In Generall first The Commerce that passes betweene us and others the Iustice and Righteousnes the Mercy and Charitie the Truth and Honestie which we shew towards all men these are as Broad Seales to proove it to them and the Letters Patents that testifie it and justifie us in our feare of God That unrighteous Iudge that feared not God but righted the poor widow onely to avoid trouble yet he in denying to doe it for any feare of God or Man even by that confest that the chiefest thing which should have mooved him to it was the feare of God Luk. 18.4 And whence was it that Abraham could look for no better then murther and rape among the Philistines that they would kill him and force his wife but because he thought Surely the feare of God was not in that place Gen. 20.11 But Ioseph on the other side ayming to satisfie his Brethrens minde and to make them not doubt of faire and honest dealing at his hand makes that the Reason and Assurance of it This doe and live saith he for I also feare God Gen. 42.18 And in this regard it is worth the observing that when God was pleased to take the Devils owne verdict concerning Iobs fearing God how e're Iob was excellent at both Expressions at the acts of Religion in his holy and daily Worshipping of God the acts of Honestie in his upright Dealing with all men yet God questions the Devil not of the former his Religious fearing him but onely of the other his Righteous fearing of him Hast thou not considered my Servant Iob that there is none like him upon earth in the fearing of God Iob 1.8 But how was that to appeare to Satan He sayes not For he Prayes thus much he Preaches thus often he Sacrifices daily he Professes continually all which might well have been said of him but For he is an upright and just man and eschewes wrong and evill sayes God Signes able to convince the Devill himselfe who not daring upon those Proofes to denie it onely sought to blemish it with a slaunder of sinister respects Timet sed

deportment neither God nor Man will beare us witnesse that we do Feare him God nor Man I say For expressions I shall shew you there are of both kinds both to God and to Man To Man that he may know it and so when need is acknowledge it and glorifie God for it or profit himselfe by it To God onely that he may be pleased to acknowledge it though he knew it long before for he knowes what is in man better then man himselfe And for this 't is brought in with a Nunc to Abraham that Father not of the Faithfull alone but of the Fearefull too for He is the first that 's ever said to Feare the Lord Gen. 22.12 Nunc cognovi quòd timeas Now I know that thou fearest God What Not till now Lord Was Abrahams minde unknowne to thee before Could not God tell long agoe whether Abraham feared him Yes as S. Peter answered Christs third question Whether he loved him with Lord thou knowest all things thou knowest that I love thee and yet Christ the third time said to him Feed my sheep Ioh. 21.17 As who should say Ne're be sorie Simon that I aske thee so often and ne're doubt but I perfectly know thee but know it I will not till thou thus expresse it for how'ere God requires truth in the inward parts yet the inward parts alone are not all he requires he will not know that he is loved unlesse that love doe outwardly appeare and expression we must make of our Feare or els he will not acknowledge that we doe feare him NOw what expression of it can we make to God Abrahams case forenamed shewes us that upon speciall commands there may be Speciall wayes of it even to the sacrificing of an onely Sonne if God so require But the Ordinarie way that lyes open for all men the very word it selfe here will shew us that we must expresse our feare to God by Acts of Religion for so the word feare ordinarily imports in Scripture When Moses had at large described the whole Dutie of Gods Worship his conclusion is And now Israel what doth the Lord require of thee but to feare him Deut. 10.12 That speciall command which God sent against worshipping of strange Gods was Feare not the Gods of the land where you dwell Iudg. 6.10 And the complaint which the Prophet makes of Israel that the feare wherewith they feared God was in precepts of mens teaching Esa. 29.13 by Christ himselfe 't is expounded of corrupting Gods Worship In vaine doe they worship me teaching for Doctrines the precepts of men Matth. 15.9 And in this sense I can tell what to make of it that when the Articles were to be sworn to betwixt the two great Princes Laban and Iacob how Iacob should use Labans daughters whome he had to wife and how Laban should keep a faithfull league with Iacob Laban indeed sware by his Idols but Iacob sware a strange oath Per timorem Patris Isaac by the feare of his Father Isaac Gen. 31.53 What was that Why Laban sware according to his Religion and Iacob according to his by the worth and truth thereof and by that Deitie which his Father and he feared to wit the God of Heaven whom they worshipped And with a reference to this also we must take it what 's recorded in holy writ of religious Obadiah holy Iob devout Cornelius and sundry others still how they feared God For as it appeares by the Wiseman 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the feare of God and the worship of God they are all one in the language of the Spirit And the Grammarians themselves have noted it so that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the most peculiar word for worship comming of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the nature of it imports nothing els but an eminent feare so that these two will ever goe together and where there is any true fearing of God there will be withall a due worshipping of him And does not K. David himselfe leade to this in plaine termes construing his owne minde But as for me saith he I will come into thy house Psal. 5.7 His meaning is I will come and worship thee For that was all the comming into Gods house in those daies when they came they came to worship and worship God they did when ' ere they came thither they were neither too holy nor too stately neither too fine nor too foolish to cast themselves downe when they came into Gods presence But to make it sure he goes on in the next words there And in thy feare will I worship in thy holy Temple saith he There we have them both expresly not worship put alone nor feare alone put for worship though either had been enough I will worship thee or I will shew my feare of thee in thy Temple but both together When I am there in thy feare will I worship that is I will adore thee with such Expressions of Humilitie and Reverence as of right doe appertaine to a Creator from his Creature And how fully then meets this with the Epidemiall prophanation of our times that will thrid you a difference now betwixt this feare and perfect worship betwixt a Religion and a due Devotion betwixt Holines and Holines Holines good store for sooth in heart and in minde Religion in the belly and the braine oh we are so full of that we are ready to burst with it it runs out many times at our mouth with Stand farther off I am holier then thou yea and we are good men you must know and exceeding godly such as feare God and heare his Word duely That 's true we have a great deale of Religion in our Eares too But yet higher or lower though we have none None upon our Heads for a due Reverence before him None in our Knees to bow at his blessed Name None for our Bodies to cast them downe and worship Especially not in his house in the most Sacred presence of our God No the lesse a doe there the better the lesse Superstition Doe but come in confidently and without any more stirre sit downe and be covered and heare and who dare say that we feare not God Whatsoever is more then this for Adoration or any Beautie of Holines talke K. David what he will of it yet it is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Superstitious overfearing of God with many of us for where requires he any of these Expressions and Externall operations in his worship But to these unsavorie Fancies may the Prophet Malachy have leave to reply many passages of whose first Chapter mutatis mutandis fit these times as well as they did those they were made for And they are ne're a whit from my Text neither for they are all about Expressions of Feare in the Service of God At the sixt verse If I be a Father where is my Honour and if I be a