FOOTNOTES:
[78] Ier. 17. 17. Eccleſ. 2. 8.
[79] Pſal. 33. 18. 20. Eccleſ. 2. 7.
[80] Pſal. 115. 11. & 56. 3. Eccleſ. 2. 9.
[81] 1 Cor. 10. 10. Pſalm. 22. 23. Act. 10. 2.
[82] Exod. 20. 20. Eccleſ. 15. 13. Prou. 8. 13. & 16. 6. 2 Tim. 1. 7. 1 Ioh. 4. 18. Hoſ. 3. 5. Pſal. 97. 10. Ier. 4. 18. & 2. 19.
[83] Verò-Chriſtianus—proficiēdo perveniet ad talem animū, vt plus amet Dominum quàm timeat Gehēnam: vt etiamſi dicat illi Deus, vtere deliciſe carnalibus ſempiternis & quantum potes; pecca, nec morieris, nec in Gehēnam mitteris, sed mecum tantummodo non eris; exhorreſcat et omninò non peccet, non iam vt in illud quod timebat non incidat, ſed ne illum quem ſic amat, offendat. De Catechiz. Rudib. cap. 27. tom. 4. fol. 912.
[84] Ierem. 32. 39, 40. Deut. 4. 10. Prou. 23. 17. & 14. 2. 1 Tim. 2. 15.
[85] Matth. 28. 20 Eſ. 43. 1, 2.
[86] Ier. 14. 9. Lam. 3. 22, 23.
[87] 2 Cor. 12. 9. Eſ. 26. 4. & 45. 24. Psal. 121. & 35. 24. Rom. 8. 26.
It is as true alſo (which Gerſon and others haue obſerued[92]) that many times a Deuout Soule is ſo diſquieted with a ſlauiſh Feare of the Aduerſary; that ſhe feares leſt ſhe hath not any true Feare of Gods Maieſtie; but yet (B. B.) ſay the Pelagian what hee can to the contrary, ſuch is the Euerlaſtingneſſe of Gods Loue[93], Mercie[94], and Couenant[95], the Vnconquerableneſſe of his Power[96], the Immortality of his Word[97], the Certaintie of his Promiſes[98], the Efficacie of Chriſts Spirit[99]; Prayer[100], Merits[101], and of Faith in them[102]; yea ſuch is the durable vigour of this ſauing Grace of the Feare of the Lord[103], that being once rooted by God, (as Saint Auguſtine vrgeth) it cannot be remoued; but through it we may perſeueringly adhere vnto God according to his promiſe: I will put my Feare in their hearts, that they ſhall not depart from me, Ier. 32. 40. with Pſal. 80. 17. She then that truely hath this Feare, doth ſo feare the Lord in Loue, and loue him in feare[104], that as in the midſt of Gods not Conſuming, but Conſummating Anger (for ſo Saint Auguſtine[105] calls Gods Anger towards the Godly) ſhee can ſee the yerning and relenting Bowels of a Compaſſionate Father, ſo in the height of Satans Terrifying iniections, ſhe can ſhunne and abhorre Gods Diſpleaſure[106], more than all other miſeries of Puniſhments, and therefore in what ſtate ſoeuer ſhe be of Conſolation or Deſertion, ſhee is ſtill the ſame Woman, Timens Dominum, Fearing the Lord.
