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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17334	The schole of godly feare a sermon preached at the assises holden in Exeter, March 20, 1614.	Bury, John, 1580-1667.	1615 (1615)	STC 4180.5; ESTC S262	20,285	40

it issueth from the premisses as the Vse from the Doctrine wee must now consider and so descend from explication to application from lightening our minds to heate our affections And that we might be throughly heated with godly feare the Apostle here placeth vs betweene the Sun and the fire For Gods fatherly loue on the one side God a Father a comfortable Sunne-shine of mercy on the other side God a Iudge a scalding Fire of iustice In the Sunne-shine of his mercy we may obserue a twofold brightnesse 1. In him in his direct beames proceeding of his owne goodnesse 2. From him in their incidence on vs reflecting to our happinesse The immanent splendour of his diuine goodnesse 1. In being our Father if we shall compare it with the candle of humane kindnes what incomparable difference shall we find It is worthily esteemed to be a singular fauour when a rich man that hath no sonne of his owne adopteth some neere kinsman or friend whom he most affecteth for his good behauiour But not any one of these motiues haue any place with God Did he lacke sonnes and heires of his happines No besides his naturall Sonne many millions of Angels stand like Oliue branches round about his table yet such is his loue hee would adopt vs. Were we any kinne vnto him No we came all of another stock and might say to corruption Thou are my father and to the wormes Thou art my mother Iob 17.14 and yet such was his goodnes hee would adopt vs. If not his Kinsmen were we then his friends No we were not only aliants strangers but enemies euen from the wombe Thy father was an Ammorite and thy mother a Hittite Ezech. 16.3 and yet such was his goodnesse hee would be our Father Did we then enchaine his affection vnto vs by our good demeanour No no for vntill he made vs his sonnes by new birth wee ran the sinfull prodigals race and if with him in the confidence of Gods goodnes we could dare to say Father yet in conscience of our owne naughtines we must needs adde I haue sinned against heauen and against thee I am no more worthy to bee called thy sonne and yet yet notwithstanding all this such is his goodnes still still be would be our Father O Lord what diddest thou see in man that thou so regardest him or the sonne of man that thou shouldest make him thy sonne the brightnes of this bountie is so glittering and glorious that it beateth back our weake sight from beholding it so that returning our dazled cies downe to our selues we can but cry out with the Apostle O the depth But although we cannot like soaring Eagles 2. In shewing himselfe our Father dare the shining Sunne in the face yet may wee obserue his incidence vpon our selues Obserue it indeed we may but as the beames of the Sunne so Gods fauours vpon his children are not to be comprised either in number or measure They extend in infinitum and if wee attempt to measure them they grow in measuring they may be diuided in semper diuisibilia and if wee assay to number them they increase in numbering Onely this in generall so farre as our heauenly Father transcendeth our earthly parents in excellence which is a comparison there being no proportion betweene finite and infinite so farre hee surmounteth also in the exact performance of all fatherly offices as namely to giue a taste of some amongst all and of all by those some in fatherly affection instruction correction protection and prouision In fatherly affection who so kind Esa 49.15 Can a woman forget her child and not haue compassion on the son of her wombe though they should forget yet will not I forget thee In fatherly instruction who so diligent Ier. 31.31 I will put my Law in their inward parts and will write it in their hearts and I will be their God and they shal be my people In fatherly correction who so louing Heb. 12.10 The fathers of our bodies chasten vs after their owne pleasure but the Father of spirits chasteneth vs for our profit that wee may be partakers of his holinesse In fatherly protection who so carefull Deut. 32.16.11 The Lord kept Iacob as the apple of his eie as an Eagle steareth vp her nest flootereth ouer her birds stretcheth out her wings taketh them and beareth them on her wings so the Lord alone led him In fatherly prouision who so plentifull both for present maintenance and future inheritance hee giueth for this life sufficient maintenance Luke 12.31 Your heauenly Father knoweth that yee haue need of these things but seeke ye after the Kingdome of God and all these things shall be ministred vnto you And for the life to come a roiall inheritance vers 32. Feare not little flocke it is your Fathers pleasure to giue you the Kingdome And now beloued in the Lord should all this light be without heate A reuerent feare due are not our hearts more insensible then the stones if they warme not more frozen then ice if they melt not in so cleare so feruent a Sun-shine who that hath the feeling of a child of God can choose but prostrate his soule in awfull obsequiousnesse at the feet of him whom thus we call Father Yet alas if euery one should examine one But ill paid how many of vs here present are bold to call him Father and in the same breath as bold to displease him yea eo nomine so much the bolder making his fatherly indulgence a boulster for our vnsonlike insolence and whereas there is mercy with him that he may be feared we on the contrary vntoward children as we are because we hope to find mercy with him we feare him not but presuming on impunity make the lesse conscience of impietie Doe yee so saith Moses Deut. 32.6 Do ye so reward the Lord O foolish people and vnwise is not hee thy Father that hath bought thee he that made and proportioned thee With what face can we call him Father with what heart can we thinke our selues to bee his sonnes feeling in vs no more feeling of deuout reuerence The Sunbeames collected in a burning glasse The reason kindle a fire vpon certaine conditions viz. that the obiect be combustible and apt to take fire that it be held still and steddy and that it be in a iust distance neither too farre off nor yet too neere but as the beames may best vnite their force we are not without a burning glasse I am come saith Christ Lu. 12.46 to put fire on the earth what is my desire but that it be kindled Through him Gods fatherly loue shineth vpon vs he standeth as mediator between God and vs receiuing the beames of fauor as his natural son and transfusing them altogether vpon vs his adopted brethren Being thē in so cleare a Sunshine and hauing so perfect a burning glasse how comes it to passe that so many of vs continue so cold