406 The Sublapfarians doa áné hope of eternall glory.Souldiers, Merchants, Hufbandmeri; all are whetted-on by hope todiligence in their callings , as dayly experience íheweth us.' Hope,faith Aquinas, confert ad operationem, conduceth toaction: and, he provethit , firft by Scripture, i.Cor.9. t o. Hewhich eareth and threfheth , muff ear and threfh in hope. and then he provetti it by a two- fold reafon ; i. From the nature of Hopes obje&, which is bonumarduum&poffbilehaberi, fome excellent good attain- able by induftry. exiiimatio ardui excitat attentionem, Mope to get that by pains' which is conceived to be a thing of worth,ítirreth up to painstaking. t. From the effc& of Hope, which is delell atio , an inward pleafure , which the party that liveth under hope is affeáed with by his hope. There is not anyman which hath an inward contentment and fatiffaetionof heart in the work he bath todo, but goeth onmerrily. The Hopeof heaven therefore is a great encou- ragement topiety. The Fear (C) of hell allo is a firong curb to hold men in from impiety: And therefore (faith one) God bath planted in men a fear ofvengeance, that by it, as the chip by the rudder, the foul may prefently be turned afide from any rocks,gulfs or quickfands of fin; when it is near them, &may {leer its courfe another way. For thiscáufe fear ofGod and ab.eining from evil are often joyned together in ScriptureJob r.r. Exod. r.17. and the want of this fear is made the root of all li- centioafneffe in finning, Gen% to. i I. Nor doth fear onely hinder a bad action, but it promoteth a good. It hindrech a bad action directly , becaufe it is fugamali, a flying from that evil of mifery which is annexed to the evil of finne : and it promoteth a good anion accidentally , becaufe men think that theyare never fo fafe from the mifchiefwhich they fear, as when they are exercifed in Inch employments as tend to the getting Of a contrary flare. trork-out yourfalva- tion (faith theApoftle) with fear and trembling; implying that theworking-out of falvation goeth not on handfomely, except t be fear ofmiffing is be an ingredient into the work. a. The fecond (D) branchof this reafon is , That by cbe abfolutedecree Hope and Fear are taken away. For Hope is ;properly exercifed about bonum pobilehaberi, Tome good thing which may be obteined, not which mull be obreinedof neccfíicie: and the obje&of Fear is malumpofbile v aari, an evil th i t may be efcap: d. For metus oft fuga mali , fear is a fleeing from evil ; and therefore fup.pofeth the evil to be a- voydable: i:29uin, T. Z, qu.40.arr.8,
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