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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

have laid a snare for me yet I erre not from thy precepts Princes have persecuted mee but my heart stands in awe os thy word As if hee should say I feare thee more than any persecution 5. They feare man more than God that in trouble feare man and distrust God and upon the surprizall of any evill thinke not on God but of fortifying themselves by leagues with men Such were they in the prophesie Esa 22.8.9.10.11 that looked after armour and walles rampiers and fortifications but they had not respect to God They feared the enemy but they dreamed not of him whom they had provoked by their sins But they that feare God more than man will bee sure to make God sure and for the rest they are fearlesse What time sayth David I am afrayd Psal 56 3.4● I will trust in thee I will not feare what man can doe unto me And againe Though an host should encampe against me my heart shall not feare though warre should rise against me Psal 27.3 in this shall I be confident 6. And lastly they feare man more than God that forbeare open sinnes that are obvious to humane eyes but make no conscience of secret sins of sins in the heart of sins in darknesse or in retired places Such whose maxime is if not chastly yet cautelously Si non caslè tamen cautè No matter for keeping sin uncommitted so you keepe it unknowne This was the infirmity of Iacob My father Gen. 27.12 saith he peraduenture will feele mee and I shall seeme to him a deceiuer His feare was not so much to be as to seeme a deceiver But it is ordinary with wicked men The murderer kils betime while men are in bed Iob 24.14 15 16. The adulterer waites for the twy-light and disguises his face The thiefe digges through houses in the darke The time was saith Paule that they that were dunk were drunke in the night 1 Thes 5.7 Though now these monsters outface the sun Seest thou saith God to the prophet what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the darke Ezek. 8.12 euery man in the chambers of his imagery And if every man had a window in his breast or his thoughts were writ in his fore-head as Cicero wisht of every Roman what monstrous counsels shal wee bee spectators of On the contrary they that feare God more then man will with Ioseph refuse uncleannesse though they have opportunity and secresie They will not curse a deafe man that cannot heare them nor cast a blocke afore a blinde man that cannot discover them They will not curse their rulers not in their bed-chamber Eccles 10.20 not in their thoughts This was Iob his temper I have not saith hee covered my transgression Did I feare a multitude or did the contempt of families terrisie me Iob. 31.33.34 No hee feared God more then man Let us all try our selves by this unerring rule CHAP. XII A Dehortation from those sinnes that are contrary to the feare of God And first of Carnall Security with the remedy thereof THat part of this treatise that is past is more doctrinal what follows shall bee more applicatory and that either Dehortatory or Exhortatory The Dehortatory part forbids all those siins that are contrary to the feare of God And they are diverse some whereof are contrary to it in excesse some in defect I shall handle them in order 1. One vice contrary to the feare of God is carnall security a wrtechlesse carelesnes when men are moved neither with the threatnings of God in his word nor with the execution of Gods iudgements in the world nor with the beginnings of GODS wrath upon themselves These are the three heads of this Hydra 1. When men are not touched with the denounciation of the comminations of God in his word such are they That when they heare the words of Gods curse Deut. 29.19.20 blesse themselves in their hearts and say they shall have peace although they walke according to the stubbornnesse of their own hearts adding drunkennesse to thirst sinne to sinne running round in the divells circle Such as make a coveant with death Isay 28.18 and agreement with hell as if they should not seaze them Such as cry the vision is for many dayes to come Ezek. 12.27 and the prophesie of the times that are afarre off the evill shall not fall in their dayes Those that put away farre from them the evil day as in Amos. Amos 6.3 Those that say in their hearts the Lord will doe neither good nor evill as in Zephany Zeph. 1.12 And are not most of our age of this guize Doe not wee say in our hearts Come God will bee better then his word Hee that hath made all will save all Give the preachers leave to thunder and lighten wee hope the best still no man shall put us out of heart If wee were not lulled asleepe in the cradle of security how durst wee touch that forbidden fruit that is guarded with Angels preachers I mean for Angell fignifies a Messenger when they have a flaming sword in their mouths thretning ruine to us How durst wee teare the sacred name of God when he hath threatned that hee will not huld him guiltlesse that taketh his name in vaine How durst wee distrust Gods word feare to defend a good cause commit adultery or lye when God hath menaced that all fearefull unbeleeving abhominable Revel 21.8 murderers adulterers and all lyers shall have their part in the Lake that burnes with fire and brimstome No no our transgression sayth to all the world that there is no feare of God before our eyes Psal 36.1 as David argues 2. It is carnall security not to bee afrayd when God hath punished others for the same sinnes whereof wee are deeply guilty When our neighbours house is on fire not to feare our owne Such were the men of Laish they dwelt carelesly and securely Iudg. 18.7 as it is recorded of them And this is our crime Gods heavie Rod hath rid circuit about other nations and our Halcyon dayes of peace make us secure and carelesse When a heathen can tell us When you are highest in iollity Vhi maximè gaude●is maximè metues Sen. de Tr. l. 2. c. 31. feare most Evill is not confined to one people it may goe forth from nation to nation as God sayth The prophesies are bigge with these expressions It is sayd in Ezechiel Ier. 25.32 Ezek. 32.10 I will make many people horribly afrayd for thee when I shall brandish my sword afore them they shall tremble every moment every man for his owne life in the day of thy fall And yet wee tremble not though God hath long brandisht his sword afore our eyes in neighbouring kingdomes God may complaine of us as hee did of them in Zephany I have cut off the nations about them Zeph. 3.6.9 and made their Cities waste