, · TheftiftCommA1tdement. ·4) tre wifedomc of the fle1l1 is enmirk to God in all things. Yea,.the earnall wifedo·mc ofa fpirimall n1an.~ is cnmiti·e to Godand goodnes: and fo long as one f0Ilo-vves it, he f11all neucr feare God. As we may fee inE1te, v·• hen the "~' ould go and confult with tbat carnal! reafon,that the diuell h~d put · into her head, and began to think with her fdf; Surdy this fruice hath a good colour to the eye, aod it _is like, it will prone plelfan~ to th_e tafic, and I f1u11 ge.t muc·h knowledge by it,and be macl~ iike God/o that my fiat: {hall bee much amended: (for this the diuell h.ad pnfvvade-d her of) then (he fa lies to cate the forbi0dcn fruite, and to tempt her huf– band.~and to doeany thing the diuell would folicirc her Vlilo:– to; and feare.sGod no n1orc)thari iffbc had been fure the.re had been no c;od. \ The fecond thing wee mull doe, to obtaine the true feare ofGod, is, to aske 1t ofhim,toconfdfe that ofour fdues we haue it nor, but arealtogether prophane: as Dauidfpeaket~ Ier.32·4• of vnregeneratemen: that they haue not the feare ofGod before their eyes,but thinke.that there is no God,and liue as ·ifthere were noGod. Wc·e.tnufi thenconfeffe, and fee o.ur ownewants, and intreare God to fupplie the fatnr, to put his fearc in our heartsJ fince he hath prc)tnifed this to all his Ele&, and hi his coucnant bath fa id, that bee will put his feare in their inward parts~ th3t they may feare him. And hee hath befiowed it alfo ·vpon others of his children; as on Dauid, for he faith, that he did fcare, and tremble at the · iudgements of G 0 D. And ifwee aske it of God (accor– .·ding to his owne couenan~, and according ~o his former. dealing with other of his children) he will a!fo bellow it vpon vs . .The 1 Hmranes to obwine this holie feare, is, often to thinkeand m~dirarevpon Gods fearfull iudgcmerus,V\ hi eh he hath executed vpon finners : for this will breed in our ~carts a fenf~ a:ld .-:twe of his Maic!1ie. As, to thinke.) th ~t God did:'flot fpare the Angels, bdng 1norc cxcellent.-crea– turrs)and far exceeding vs in fjiorie>and flre1~oth: but when h .. J:'. r k 1 •· :> t1ary tondo et~eir plac·'!, that their Crearor had fet them in, and rebelled againfl him, hc:ecall them intohell,ioto ex- - D , , treante
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