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C.Xt1.4:64,65,66.
The
principle
ofthe
Saints
obedience
not
fervile feate.
302
it
will
thence
follow,
that it
is
the intendment
of
God by
his
Threatnings, to
ingenerate
f
rich
a
Feare
of
Hell in
them,
as is
inconfiftent with
an Affurance
of
his Faithfulnefle
in
his
Promifes
not
to
leave them, but
to
preferve them
to his
Heavenly
Kingdome,
I
profeffe
I
know
not:
The
Obedience
of
the
Saints,
we
looke upon
to
proceed from
a
principle wrought
in
them
with
an higher
Energy
and
efficacy,
than
meere
defires
of
God
to
implant it by Arguments
and
Motives;
that
is
by
perfwading them
toit,
without the
leaff reali
contributi-
on
of
ftrength
or
power,
or the
ingrafting the
Word
in
them, in,
with,
and
by,
a
new principle
of
Life; And
if
this be
the
Phyllis
of
our
Authors
Do_
(trine,
solar
habeto.
Such a
working
of
Obedience,
we
cannot
think to
have
any
thing
of
God,
of
the
Spirit
ofGod,ofthe
Wifdome
of
God, or the
Good
-
neflà
of
God
in
it,
being exceedingly
remote
from
the way
and manner
of
Gods working
in
the
Saints,
as
held out in the Word
ofTruth,
and
incffe-
&uall
to the
end propofed,
in
that
Condition wherein they
are.
The true
ufe
of
the
Threatnings
of
wrath
in
reference
to
them
who by
Chrift
are delivered
from
it,
bath
been before manifefted and
infifted
on.
4
64.
In the
Taft
divifìon
of
this
Se
&ion,
he labours
to
prove
that
what
is done
from
a
principle
of
Feare may
be
done willingly
and
chearefully, as well as
that
which
is
done
from
a
principle
of
Love.
To
which briefely
I
fay
Firft,
Neither
Feare
nor
Love as
they are meere
naturali
Affe
&ions,
are any
principle
of
Spiritual!
Obedience
as
fuel'.
Secondly,
That
we
are
fo
farre from denying the
ufefulneffe
of
the
Feare
of
the Lord
to the Obedience
of
the
Saints;
That
the continuance thereof in
them to the end,
is
the great
Promife for
the
certaine
Accomplifhment
whereof,
we
do contend.
Thirdly,
That
Feare
of
Hellin Believers,
as a
part
of
the
wrath
of
God,
from which they are delivered
by
Chrift,
being oppofed
to
all
their
Grace
of
Faith,
Love, Hope,
&c.
is
no principle
of
Obedience
in
them, whatever
in-
fluence
it
may have on them
as
to
reftraint when managed
by
the handof
Gods
Grace.
Fourthly
That
yet
Believers can
never be delivered from it
but
by Faith
in
the
Blond
ofChrift, attended
with
fincere
and
upright
walking
with God;
which when
they
faile
of,
though
that
Feare fuppofed
to
be .predominant
in
the
foule,be inconfiftent
with
any
comfortable chearing
Affurance
of
the favour
of
God,yet
it
is
not with the
certaine
continuance
to
them
of
the
thing
it
felfe,
upon
the
account
of
the
Promifes
of
God.
Seäion
the
fixteenth containes
a
large Difcourfe
in
anfwer
to
the
Apoftle,
4.65
affirming
that
Feare bath torment, wihch
is
denyed by
otir Author upon
fun-
dry
Confederations;
The
Feare
he intends
is,
a
Feare
of
Hell,
and wrath
ro
come; This he
fuppofeth
to
be
of
fuch
predominancy
in
the
foule,
as
to
be
a
principle
of
Obedience
unto God;
That
this can
be without
Torment, .Dif-
quiet,
Bondage
and vexation he
will
not
eafily
evince
to the
confciences
of
them,who have at
any
time
been
exercifed
under
fuch a
frame;
What
Feare
is
confiftent
with Hope,
W
hat
incurfions npon
the
foules
of
the
Saints
are
Made
by dread and bondage,
and Feare
of
Hell, and
the
ufe
of
fuch feares,
How
Tome
are, though
true
Believers, fcarcely
delivered from
fuch Feares,
all
their
dayes,I have formerly declared: and
that
may
fuffice as
to
all
our
concerne-
ment
in this Difcourfe.
4:66,
In
the
feventeenth
Sed
ion,fomwhat
is
attempted
as
to
Promifes,anfwerable
to
what bath been done concerning
Exhortations and
Threatnings; the
words
ufed
to
this
end
are many,
the
fttmme
is, That
tie
ufe,
of
Promifes
in
fhhrring
men
up
to.
Obedience, is
folely
in
the propofall
of
a good
thing,
or good
things
to
them
to whom
the
Promifes
are
made which they may
attaine,
or
come
fliort
off.
Now