306 Peciouo ga'<tdj. fear the Lord and his goodnefs ? Who would not tremble at Sins indignity and ingratitude ? After fuch mercies as thefe fhould we again tranfgref againft him ? If we was. wanton un- der Goodnefs, how (bon may Soveraignty come down and recóver all from us as for- feited ! Heaven may (taut up it felf, and the dews of the Spirit ceafe, our Graces may all droop and wither, and our Hearts grow hard and flony; one lufl or other may carry u's into cap¡,ivity, and our little remnant of Grace and Life may cry out as the Church Both, 0 Lord why haft thou made us to err from thy ways ? and hardned our hearts from thy fear ? return for thy f rvants Pike, Ifa. 63. 17 . After all our wantonnefs we thall be glad to come to holy Fear again ; Soveraignty will make us fear him in every thing : fuch a fight of him by Faith as this makes him pradically to us trn i the fear, as he is called, Pfal. 76. r r. Moreover Faith moves this Fear into aft by (hewing the great evil of Sin : Senfe looks on penal evils which prefs on the outward man, but Faith on Sin as the greateft of evils, it be- ing an oppofite to God, a blot to the Soul, a blaft to the World, a forfeiture of Heaven, and fuel for the flames of Hell ; a thing not to be done, Pro quantifcunque bonii luerandis, aut pro quantifcunque malis proecavendis ; for the gain- ing never fo great a good, or for the avoiding ne- ver fo great an evil, as Bradnardine (peaks. Hence St. Auftin faid,. That a man mull not tell a lie to fave a world. And Henry Flandar being a Pri-
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