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Two sermons tending to direction for Christian carriage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and…Two sermons tending to direction for Christian cariage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and…
Two sermons tending to direction for Christian carriage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and in judgements imminent : the former on Psalm 13.1, the latter on Hebr. 11.7 / by Thomas Gataker, B. in D. and pastor of Rotherhith.Two sermons tending to direction for Christian cariage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and in judgements imminent : the former on Psalm 13.1, the latter on Hebr. 11.7 / by Thomas Gataker, B. in D. and pastor of Rotherhith.
London: printed by John Haviland, 1623London: printed by Iohn Haviland, 1623
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In which places, as it is well observed by Augustine, that the Psalmist shaving said, that fear him, he addeth withal, and that trust or hope in him; to exclude the former fear. For, saith he, tMen fear a thief, or a wild beast, in one manner; ⟨p. 108⟩and children fear their parents in another manner. Men fear the one, so as they fly from them; good children the other, so as they seek to them. And in the latter manner, not in the former, ought men to fear God. Wicked men and damned spirits fear him so, as *they fly from him: Gods children so fear him, as that yet they sue and seek to him: If they seem to fly from him, it is but to fly to him; they fly but from his Justice to his Mercy: as he that appealed sometime ufrom Philip to Philip, from Philip sleeping to Philip awaked: So do xthey fly from God to God, from God in justice angry with them, to the same God in mercy pacified and appeased towards them.
In which places, as it is well obserued by Augustine, that the Psalmist shauing said, that feare him, he addeth withall, and that trust or hope in him; to exclude the former feare. For, saith he, tMen feare a theefe, or a wilde beast, in one manner; ⟨p. 108⟩and children feare their parents in another manner. Men feare the one, so as they flie from them; good children the other, so as they seeke to them. And in the latter manner, not in the former, ought men to feare God. Wicked men and damned spirits feare him so, as *