In this life thing.r come ali!(e todll.. ~ 5~9 ~------------------------------- - - ~--~ touch me no tin the maine,) but ifitbe finne~h~ lookes on-that as the-greateil: evill, and therefore he fearesit above all things.So nowby thisthou fhalt knowwhat thy feare is.,whether thou feare thedoing ofevill,orthe fuffering ofevill. True fe:are Lafl: of ali,confider whether thou feare the word makes·a man ofGod,whethere in nothing but the meere word fearcthcword , when there is nothing but meere threatnings, a~ Ifl 66 in l[tti.66 z.l wiU looke to themthat{remMe at my · a. :t. word. If thou feare onely the aCt:uall affiietion, the judgement, the crolfe,when it pincheth thee, and is upon thec,any naturall mah is able to doe that; but the wifemart fees it before he beleeves the threatning,he fees it in the cloud,beforeit be fhed downe in the fiorme, he feares the wordof· God,.and trembles at it, becaufe he -bdeeveth it, whenothers beleeve it- not. Therfore confiderby . this, whetherthou be ftwh a one as feares finnc, whether thmr hall: ·all thefe properties of true · feare,or whether on the other fide thou art-care– , ldfc of finne,whetherthoubeonethat.fwi:ares,or ·one thatflares an oath. So much fuall ferue for this point; Allthings come alike toaU,and the fame · .condition is tothejaft tU to the wicked,&c. · The nextp?inr:hat we hav~to obf~rv~ out of Tf~~;~1i thefe words IS this; .Forthe ttme oftbtS lift there out alike ro aTrhe th~ likhe eve~t.)· tod· t 1 hegoo1 d 1';.efj~i~ to thhc wickhebd; ; ~~~:~~~bad at IS, t oug~-1 Go IJt LA IJ u 1 .:cunt,t oug e ' make good his A !Lfofficicncie to the Saints, fo _ that .he is 11 Sunne an_d tt Shield unto them, an·dno, go~dthing is wanting to them, nor any .evill thing \ , cancomeneere rhem;yet for all this,forthe time I of
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