The truly blessed man

5. That Unregenerate and carnal Professors have none of this love in them, and are therefore acted by that fear. To love God, and to make a free choice of his service, is a fruit of special saving Grace, and found in none but the Regenerate. There is a false love which men are sometimes, for a fit, stimulated by, viz. When God hath remarkably delivered them from some great trouble, they are for a while affected with it, and very zealous: but it ⟨p. 484⟩is soon over, and they grow cold: or they Idolize the mercy, and forget the author: but this fear is the root of the carnal mans Obedience, Isa· 33 14. Most Hypocrites have an awakened Conscience, and a legal spirit attending it, which drives them to duty as a drudgery, and keeps them to it as a severe master. Conscience tells the man, there is hell and damnation, or there are terrible Judgments, &c. and thus, like a dog, he dares not fall upon the thing that he would fain begat, lest he should be beaten for it. And indeed, by this fear God holds the command of mens Consciences, and by it, he in a great measure governeth the world, and restrains the unruly lusts of men from breaking forth into that height of exorbitancy, which otherwise they would soon rush into, if left without any bridle upon them, whose heart is set in them to do evil; and would carry them to the height that the greatest monsters of men ever arrived at.

5. That Unregenerate and carnal Professors have none of this love in them, and are therefore acted by that fear. To love God, and to make a free choise of his service, is a fruit of special saving Grace, and found in none but the Regenerate. There is a false love which men are sometimes, for a fit, stimulated by, viz. When God hath remarkably delivered them from some great trouble, they are for a while affected with it, and very zealous: but it ⟨p. 484⟩is soon over, and they grow cold: or they Idolize the mercy, and forget the author: but this fear is the root of the carnal mans Obedience, Isa· 33 14. Most Hypocrites have an awakened Conscience, and a legal spirit attending it, which drives them to duty as a drudgery, and keeps them to it as a severe master. Conscience tells the man, there is hell and damnation, or there are terrible Judgments, &c. and thus, like a dog, he dares not fall upon the thing that he would fain be•at, lest he should be beaten for it. And indeed, by this fear God holds the command of mens Consciences, and by it, he in a great measure governeth the world, and restrains the unruly lusts of men from breaking forth into that height of exorbitancy, which otherwise they would soon rush into, if left without any bridle upon them, whose heart is set in them to do evil; and would carry them to the height that the greatest monsters of men ever arrived at.