92 t e Poo? Manz famítp 'rook. you never read that the (d) Fear ofGod is the be- ginning of wifdom ; agood underflanding have all they that de hereafter ? Doth not Chrift fay, Fear him that isable to deftroy both foul and body in Hell ? Yea t fay unto you ( whoever faith the contrary) Fear him, Matth. ro. 28. Luk. 12. 5. And Hebr. i2. 28, 29, Seeing we receive aKingdom that cannot be moved, let xu have grace whereby we may /erve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear ; for our God is a con- fuming fire. Heb.4.I ,Having a promife left ru of en- tering intohis refl, let usfear left anyofyou come Port ofit. TheScripture is full of fuch like paffages. Suppofe I am a Phyfician and have a Medicine that infallibly curethalidropfiesand confumptions in time ; And I fee the figns of a Drop[ie or Confumption on one of your Servants, and I tell himmy opinion ofhis cafe and danger, that he will die unlefs he prefently take this certain remedy ; And youcome and chide rue for frightening and difcomf'orting him, and tell him that there is no danger ? Which of us is the more comfor- table friend to the man,? t afire himof Recovery if he will ufe the means : You flatter himwith f ilfe hopes to keep him fromufing them. And I am a Phyfician and youare none : Which ofus may he wifelierbelieve ? " Fl. When you fhould draw men to Believe, you "drive them to unbelief and doubting. P. Faith is not meerly to Believe that we are already forgiven and fhalLbe faved : If it would prove a man good, to believe that he is good, or prove that a man shall be faved, to Believe that he (hall be faved, and that he bath true grace when he bath none, then all the (d) Pfal.i it. go. nrov.i.io.d 15.3 ;ó Peathens
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