A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

3. If we do not fear to offend him. God will be served with every affection; Love is of use in the spiritual life, and so is fear, 2 Cor. 7. 1. Perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Love sweeteneth duties, and Fear maketh us watchful against sin: ^*Love is the doing Grace, and Fear is ^*the conserving Grace. We have cause to walk in Gods ways, because we are always under his eye. Love is necessary, that we may keep God always in our hearts; and Fear, that we may keep him always in our eye: both of them are of great use, but Fear we now speak of, which is the true internal root of all obedience and worship, Eccl. 12. 13. when there is such a settled disposition of heart, as that we dare not grieve him, nor affront him to his face (as Ahasuerus said, Will he force the Queen before my face?) God is much honoured, but now when we are secure and careless, and forget God, and can sin freely in thought, and foully in act without remorse, 'tis ungodliness. Fear is a Grace of continual use: we cannot be always praising God, worshipping God, and employed in acts of special communion with him, yet we must be always fearing God; be thou in the fear of God all the day long, Prov. 23. 17. and elsewhere, Blessed is he that feareth always, Prov. 28. 14. A man hath done with his devotion in the morning, but he hath done with God; we should think of him, and remember that his eye is upon us all the day long: we must rise in the fear of God, walk in the fear of God, trade, ³eat, drink in the fear of God. Some Graces are as the Lungs ⟨p. 198⟩never out of use and exercise. More especially must fear be active when temptations and corruptions arise, we must argue as Joseph, Gen. 39. 9