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What
that
Feare
is
which Love
cafaeth
out
s
3oh.4
18.
C.
XII.
4;
6a
fearer; How
farce this
kind
of
Feare,
the
feare
of
Hell, not
as
declarative
of
2
97
the terrour
of
the Lord, but
as
probable to betide, and
befall
the
perlons
fo
fearing it, and th at folely confidered
as
an evil!
to
himfelfe, may be
a
prin-
ciple
ofany
a&
of
acceptable Gofpell Obedience
is
not
cleared
by
Mr
Good-
win,
nor
eafily
will be
fo.
For
J.
That
it
is
not the intendment
of
any divine
Th.
reatningi
to
beget
fuch
a
Feare
in
reference
to
them
h
t
believe,
hath
beene
d Glared.
2.
It
is
no fruit or produ&
of
the
Spirit
of
Life
and Love,which
as
hash
beene thowne
is
the
principle
of
all
our Obedience and walking with
God.
3.
It
holds
out
a
frame
of
Spirit
direly
contrary
to
what
we
are
called
and admitted
unto under
the Gofpell;For
God
hath notgiven
le
the.
Spirit
Of
feare,
but
of
Poroer,
of
Love,
and
of
a
found
mincie.
2
lima.
7.
and
Rom.
8,15
We
have not received
the
spirit
of
bondage unto
feare,
but the
Spirit
of
Adoption
whereby
we
cry Abba
Father.
The
Spirit
of
this
Feare and
Dreade,, and the
bondagethat attends
it,is
at
open
variance with the
Spirit
of Liberty,
Bold
-
neffe,
Power, Adoption,
and
a
found
mincie
wherewith
Believers
are in-
clued.
And
4.
It
is
that
which
the Lord'ChrifF intended to
remove and
take
away
from
his, by his
death,
Heb.
2.15.
He
dyed
that
he
might deliver
them,
who
for
feare
of
death
were
in
bondage
all their
dayes.
This feare then
I
fay, which
is
neither Promife
of
the
Covenant, nor fruit
ofthe
Spirit,
nor produ&
of
laving
Faith,
will fcarce
upon
f}ri&
inquiry
be
found to be
any
great furtherer
ofthe
Saints
Obedience;what
ufe
the Lord
is
pleafed
to
make
of
this
dread
and
terrour
in
the
hearts
of
any
of
his,
for
the
hedging
up
their
wayes
from folly,and flaying them
off
from any
Attuali
evill
when
through the
f}rength
of
Temptation
they do begin to cart off the Law
ofLife and Love whereby they are governed,
is
not in' the
leaft
prejudiced
by
any
thing
affected in
the
Dottrine
of
the
Saints
Perfeverance;
Toward
fome
who
though
they are perfwaded
ofthe
Perfeveraneeof
the
Saints
Indeñ-
nitely, yet
have no perfwafion,
or
at
leaft no prevailing
chearing
Affttrance
that
themfelves are
Saints
(which
Mr
Goodwin
thinkes
to
be
the
condition
of
far
the
greatef}
part ofBelievers)
it
bath
its full
power
&
extent,
its whole
efficacy
depending on
the
Apprehenfons
of
the
mincie
wherein
it is.
Towards
the
refidue,
who
upon
abiding grounds and lure foundations have
obtained
a comfortable,
Spiritual) perfwafìon
of
their owne Intereflin the
Promifes
ofGod, That the
confideration
of
Hell and
Judgment
as
the due
debt offinne
and
neceflàry
vindication
of
the Glory
of
God bath alto
its Effe
&s
and influ-
ence,
as
farre
as
God
is
pleafed
to
exercife them
therewith,acquainting
them
conti nuallywith
his
Terreur,
and
filling
them with an abhorrency
ofthofe
waye
s
which
in
and
of
themfelves,
rene
to
fo
difinall
an end
and
iffue,
hath
beend
_Glared
-
Secondly,
the
places
of
Scripture mentioned by Mr Goodwindoubtleffe
will
not
reach
his
intendmend.
Of
Noah
it
is
fsid,
that
he
was
EVA..,ept
,
after
he
Y'
6d°
wasTexot.,,mshs;
Being warned
of
God
of
that
flood
that
was
for
to
come upon
the
World
of
ungodly
men
,
and
the
Salvation
of
himfelfe and
his
Family
by
the
Arlie;
being
filled
with
the Reverence ofGod
and allured
of
his
owne
prefervation, he induftrioufly
lets himfelfe
about the
ufe
of'the
meanes,
whereby it
was
to
be
accomplifhed.
That
becaufe
a
man
affured
of
an
end
from God himfelfe,
in
and
by
the
ufe
of
meanes,
did with
a
Reverential!
Feare ofGod, not
of
any evill
threatned
which he
wasto
be
preferved
from,
let
himfelfe
to
a
confcientious ufe
of
meanes
whereby
the
promifed end
of
God's
owne inftitution
is
to
be
brought about; Therefore
the Feare
of
Hell,
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