3 3 VERSE 3, Chrijqspeople avillingpeople. mouth? (aim. 50.16. And, what bath my beloved to doe in mine halite, teeingfbe bath wrought leroduelewith ma- ny/ler.! i . r 5. he may be aarcled, and nor dare adven- ture upon fuch holy and lured things without much re- luStancie, and fharneoffpirit. 0my God, faith Ezra, I am ofhamedandbluJh to lift up mi face to thee myGod : forour iniquities are increa[edover our heads, Ezra 9.6. I Thus it is laidofthepoore woman who upon the touch of Chtias garment had beene healed of her bloudy if- fire, That./beecamefearingand trembling, and downe before Chrifi, and told him the truthMark. 5.3 3. But yet great difference there is betweene this feare of the Saints, and of the wicked. The feareofthe wicked ari- feth out of the evidences of the guilt of bone, but the feare ofthe Saints from a tender apprehenflonof the ma- jr/lie ofGod, and his moil pure eyes which cannot en- dure to behold uncleannefle (whichmade Moles him- Cede to tremble, A51.7. 3 2.) and out ofa deepe fenfe of theirowneNnworthineffe tomeddle with holy fuch a feare as this may bring much uncomfortableneffe and diffratlion of fpirit ; but, never at all anydiflikt or hatred of God, or any flomacke-full difobedience a- gainahim : for as the feareofthe foule deterres, fo the nudity of the precept drives him to an endeavourof obedience and well-pleafing; flavifh feare forceth a manCO doe the dutic fome way or other, without ary eye or refpea unto the manner of doing it. But this other which is indeed a filial], but yet withall an un- comfortable feare, rather diffwades from the dune it felfe, the heart being In vile; and unfit to performe fo precious a duty in fo holy a manner as becomes in. Thirdly as theSaints may havefrare and uncornforta- blene ffe are.contrary to a tree fpirit)fo they may have a wearinejfe and forne kinde of unwillingneffe in Gods fervice. Their fpirits like thehands of Holes in the mount-may faint and hang downe, may bet damp'd I with 1
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