| [Note: The Excellencie of Godly
Excellent? Riches, Honour, Life. | Feare.]
Why, these are neuer well gotten, |
nor well kept; but by _the Feare of | [Note b: _Prou. 22. 4. & 19. 23._
the Lord_. So saith _Salomon_, _By | _Eccles. 1. 11, 12. & 23. 27. & 40.
the feare of the Lord are Riches | 26, 27. & 10. 20, 22._]
and Honour, and Life_[b]. Say what |
you will, it must needs be an | [Note c: _Inter Laudes meas & illa
Excellent thing wherwith Christ | est eximia: quod ipsum Christum
Iesus Himselfe was Filled, and that | Domin[=u] Apothecam, immo fontem
was with _The Spirit of this Feare, | Gratiarum omnium & Virtutum replere
Esai. 11. 2._[c]. An excellent | dictus sum &c. Paris. de Moribus,
thing which God Himselfe so | fol. 99. Lit. P._]
earnestly desires to be still in |
vs, and that is this Feare. _O_ | [Note d: _Deut. 5. 29._]
(saith He) _that there were such an |
Heart in them, that they would | [Note e: _Eccles. 12. 13. Deum
feare me, and keepe my | time--Ergo si hoc est omnis Homo,
Commandements alwaies_[d], which is | absq, hoc Nihil omnis Homo. Serm.
indeed the _whole Dutie of Man_[e]; | 20. in Cant._]
without which (Saint _Bernard_ |
concludes) _Euery man is Nothing_. | [Note f: _Vsus enim humani animi
He is not a Man (reasons a | pendet a Timore conspictus Diuini
Schoole-man[f]) but the Shadow of a | tanquam a primi regula. Caiet. in
Man; because He imployes not his | Eccles. c. 8 13. v._]
Soule to that noble End for which |
he had it, namely, to be squared | [Note g: _Prou. 9. 10. Iob 28.
and ruled _by the feare of the | 28._]
Lord_: without which no man can so |
much as Begin to be wise, because | [Note h: _Eccles. 25. 12._]
this _Feare is the Beginning_[g] |
_of wisdome_, nor so much as _Begin | [Note i: _Leuit. 2. 13. Pet.
to Loue God_, because this _Feare | Bles. ser. 36. p. 430._]
is the Beginning of the Loue of |
God_[h]. It is the _Salt_ (alludes | [Note k: _Psal. 2. 11._]
_Blesensis_) that must be in euery |
_Sacrifice_[i], in euery _Worke we | [Note l: _2 Cor. 7. 11. Eccl. 21.
doe_, so that there is no _Seruing | 6._]
God_, no _Reioycing_ in Him[k], no |
heartie _Repenting_[l], no _Chast | [Note m: _1 Pet. 3. 2._]
Conuersing_[m], no _Perfecting |
Holinesse_[n], no _Working out our | [Note n: _2 Cor. 7. 1