The truly blessed man

6. That there is a mixture of these in Gods own Children; and their love is not always so powerful, and so they are sometimes exposed to this fear. What is remarked in, 1 Joh. 4 18. is not accomplished in this life; perfect love casteth out fear. The ••st have sinful corruption remaining in them, & that sometimes so prevalent, that it suppresseth the vigorous exercise of Grace, and they are led captive by the law in their members: and, as God makes use of the Spirit of bondage in the Conversion of his Elect, so sometimes he awakens it in believers, when they grow remiss in their obedience: for, though they do not receive it again, yet, it not being wholly ⟨p. 485⟩taken away, it is sometimes roused in them. They have a rooted love of God, but the exercise is damped by sinful temptations, and God terrifies them, and makes his judgments to amaze them▪ Psal. 119 120. Job 31 23. How often doth David complain of terrors that affright him, of arrows that stick in him, and drink up his spirits? But there is difference between that in the Children of God, and in unregenerate men; in these they proceed no further, rise no higher; whereas in those, they serve to awa••n their love again, and revive their Graces: these fears help forward their Repentance.

6. That there is a mixture of these in Gods own Children; and their love is not always so powerful, and so they are sometimes exposed to this fear. What is remarked in, 1 Joh. 4 18. is not accomplished in this life; perfect love casteth out fear. The ••st have sinful corruption remaining in them, & that sometimes so prevalent, that it suppresseth the vigorous exercise of Grace, and they are led captive by the law in their members: and, as God makes use of the Spirit of bondage in the Conversion of his Elect, so sometimes he awakens it in believers, when they grow remiss in their obedience: for, though they do not receive it again, yet, it not being wholly