A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

2. Fear and Love are likewise necessary. I join them together, because they do best mixed; Love with Fear, that it may not be servile; and Fear with Love, that it may not be careless and secure: both are Gospel-Graces. In the Old Testament, when God's Dispensations were more legal, and God is represented as a Judg, Fear is more spoken of; but in the New Testament, where more of Grace is discovered, Love is more spoken of: but both are necessary. Fear and Love are indeed essential Respects of the Creature to God; therefore both continue in Heaven; and they are of great Use in the spiritual Life to maintain Piety. Fear is necessary, that we may keep God always in our Eye; and Love, that we may keep him always in our Hearts: Fear restrains from Offence, and Love urgeth to Work and Service: Fear thinks of God's Eye, and represents him as a Looker on; and Love remembers God's Kindness. Fear makes us cautious and watchful, and stirs up awful Thoughts that we may not offend God, and grieve his Spirit; and Love works a Desire to enjoy him, and a Care to glorify him, wherein indeed true Godliness consists; for Godliness in its proper Notion importeth a Tendency of the Heart towards God, either to enjoy him, which is our Happiness, or to glorify him, which is our Work and Duty: And therefore Love is of great Use, it stirs up Desires to enjoy God; and Fear which stirs up Care to glorify God. Fear makes us upright, because of God's Eye; and Love makes us diligent and earnest, because we are about God's Work, who hath been gracious to us in Christ; the one makes us serious, the other ⟨p. 91⟩active: so that they are both of great Use to constitute that frame and temper of Heart wherein Piety consists. Well then, he is godly that feareth God, for he would not offend him; and he is godly that loves God, because all his Care and Desire is to serve him, and enjoy him.

2. Fear and Love are likewise necessary. I join them together, because they do best mix'd; Love with Fear, that it may not be servile; and Fear with Love, that it may not be careless and secure: both are Gospel-Graces. In the Old Testament, when God's Dispensations were more legal, and God is represented as a Judg, Fear is more spoken of; but in the New Testament, where more of Grace is discovered, Love is more spoken of: but both are necessary. Fear and Love are indeed essential Respects of the Creature to God; therefore both continue in Heaven; and they are of great Use in the spiritual Life to maintain Piety. Fear is necessary, that we may keep God always in our Eye; and Love, that we may keep him always in our Hearts: Fear restrains from Offence, and Love urgeth to Work and Service: Fear thinks of God's Eye, and represents him as a Looker on; and Love remembers God's Kindness. Fear makes us cautious and watchful, and stirs up awful Thoughts that we may not offend God, and grieve his Spirit; and Love works a Desire to injoy him, and a Care to glorify him, wherein indeed true Godliness consists; for Godliness in its proper Notion importeth a Tendency of the Heart towards God, either to injoy him, which is our Happiness, or to glorify him, which is our Work and Duty: And therefore Love is of great Use, it stirs up Desires to injoy God; and Fear which stirs up Care to glorify God. Fear makes us upright, because of God's Eye; and Love makes us diligent and earnest, because we are about God's Work, who hath been gracious to us in Christ; the one makes us serious, the other