Jptíouo with their gods, and guilty Confciences. This- fervile Fear is further advanced when to the light of Nature is fuperadded that of the pure Law, which flafhes in upon the Confcience and fets it on fire with reflections upon guilt, and expcthtions of wrath thereupon ; but it is fervile Rill, and chiefly looks at punifhment. A man in fuch a {late may forbear an as of Sin, but he is corrupt within, adhuc vivit in eo peccandi voluntac, the love of Sin is in him Al, as an Ancient hath it ; His heart faith to his Sin as the Emperour Ba f miss did to his beautiful Mother in Law, *tam vellem, fi li- ceret; Oh that there were no Law again(t it, or punifhment to follow after it: He may do good, but not well ; Intus rem' eft, 6. in animo no facit ; be is guilty within,and inmind doth it not, as St. Auftin faith ; there wants that love of righteoufnefs, out of which true Obedience iil'ues ; but where Faith is, there is caftustimor, a pure filial fear of God, fuch as reverences his Majefty as fupream, and fears Sin as the greateft evil; and withal punifhment in its due place, though not principally or in a fervile way; and among punifhments,chiefly that of lofs and feparation from God as a greater evil than the refl. And as Faith fees the invifi1e one more or lefs, fo this holy Fear is more or leis moved into aft. Of old the appearances of God in outward Symbols of glory ftruck an awe upon men ; the high Drone' with its train made Ifaiah cry out as an undone man,Ifa.6. the voice out of the whirl-wind caufed Job to ab- hor
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