FOOTNOTES:
[123] Pſal. 115. 11. & 147. 11. Eſai. 50. 10.
[124] Pſal. 19. 9
[125] 2 Cor. 7. 1.
[126] Hebr. 12. 28.
[127] Eccleſ. 2. 17. & 21. 6.
[128] Eſai. 66. 2. Eccle. 2. 15.
[129] Iob 1. 1.
[130] Act. 10. 35, 2, 31. Eccleſ. 25. 1.
[131] Pſal. 112. 1. & 128. 1.
[132] Pſal. 135. 13. & 118. 4 & 22. 23.
[133] 1 King. 18. 3. 12. Tob. 14. 4.
[134] Pſal. 19. 9. Reuel. 7. 10, 11 & 19. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6.
[135] Bonau. lib. 3. d. 34. q. 3. p. 89. Tho. Aquin. II q. 79. a. II
[136] In cœlo, vbi non eſt peccatum Gloria eſt & perpetua laus & indefeſſæ præconia. S. Ierom. ad Therdoram. Epitaph. Lucinij. Timorem Offenſa & Timorem Pœnæ. Gloria Timorem Patriæ propter coram imperfectionem nō paritur. In tuto enim erimus et ȃ pœnæ et ab offenſa. Pariſ. de Virtutibus, lit. A. F.
[137] Laudare plus eſt quàm probare & prædicare. Nam Laudamus id quod excellit &c. Auſo. Popma de Differen. Virt. l. 3.
I demand then what doe you count Excellent? Riches, Honour, Life. Why, theſe are neuer well gotten, nor well kept; but by the Feare of the Lord. So ſaith Salomon, By the feare of the Lord are Riches and Honour, and Life[138]. Say what you will, it muſt needs be an Excellent thing wherwith Chriſt Ieſus Himſelfe was Filled, and that was with The Spirit of this Feare, Eſai. 11. 2.[139]. An excellent thing which God Himſelfe so earneſtly deſires to be ſtill in vs, and that is this Feare. O (ſaith He) that there were ſuch an Heart in them, that they would feare me, and keepe my Commandements alwaies[140], which is indeed the whole Dutie of Man[141]; without which (Saint Bernard concludes) Euery man is Nothing. He is not a Man (reaſons a Schoole-man[142]) but the Shadow of a Man; becauſe He imployes not his Soule to that noble End for which he had it, namely, to be ſquared and ruled by the feare of the Lord: without which no man can ſo much as Begin to be wiſe, becauſe this Feare is the Beginning[143] of wiſdome, nor ſo much as Begin to Loue God, becauſe this Feare is the Beginning of the Loue of God[144]. It is the Salt (alludes Bleſenſis) that muſt be in euery Sacrifice[145], in euery Worke we doe, ſo that there is no Seruing God, no Reioycing in Him[146], no heartie Repenting[147], no Chaſt Conuerſing[148], no Perfecting Holineſſe[149], no Working out our Saluation, but with Feare and Trembling[150]; nay there is no Saluation, no Bleſſedneſſe without Continuing in this Feare[151], Prou. 28. 14. Againe, is not that Excellent, that will make vs more Excellent than our Neighbours[152], that will Exalt vs aboue them, that will keepe our hearts from Hardning[153], our Houſes from Ouerthrowing[154]? but nothing can doe this; but this Feare of the Lord. This feare (ſaith Pariſ.[155]) can cauſe a ſpiritual Earth-quake in a mans Heart, able to ouerthrow all the Deuils ſtrongeſt holds, any[156] Boſome-ſinne, be it neuer ſo pleaſing and profitable, by reaſon of that Contrarietie and Oppoſition[157] that is betweene Lying in any Sweet Sinne, and Liuing in Gods Feare and Fauour, as you may ſee, Leuit. 25. 36.
