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Updated: May 19, 2025
This shews he was sincere in his work; for a hypocrite may, as to outward shew, do as the saint of God: but he doth it with respect to men, not God, and therefore he is a hypocrite. To walk with God then, is not only to do the duty commanded, but to do it as God requireth it; that is, to do it with faith, and son-like fear, as in God's sight, "with singleness of heart." Ver. 10.
Because it is that Spirit of grace that is the author, animater, and maintainer of our filial fear, or of that fear that is son-like, and that subjecteth the elect unto God, his word, and ways; unto him, his word, and ways, as a Father.
Second. Living by faith begets in the heart a son-like boldness and confidence to God-ward in all our gospel duties, under all our weaknesses, and under all our temptations. But this boldness faith helpeth us to do, and also manageth in our heart.
Thus you see how David, in his distresses, musters up his prayers, faith, and evidences for eternal life, that he might deliver himself from being overwhelmed, that is, with slavish fear, and that he might also abound in that son-like fear of his fellow-brethren, that is not only comely, with respect to our profession, but profitable to our souls. Sixth.
Then, as he realized who it was, he sprang forward with an almost son-like solicitude, and helped him to a chair. "Sir Archibald, what has happened?" he cried. The old man lifted weary, hopeless eyes, out of which all the old-time flash had gone, and nothing but heavy dullness remained. "Have you heard from my boy, from George?" he asked. "No, why, is there anything the matter, Sir Archibald?"
It also maintains in the soul a son-like confession of sin, and a justifying of God under all the rebukes that he grieveth us with. Quest. But have you yet any other considerations to move us to fear God with child-like fear? Answ. I will in this place give you five. 1. Consider that he is everywhere; thou canst not be out of his sight or presence; nor out of the reach of his hand.
It may be taken for the fear that is wrought in the godly by the Spirit as a spirit of bondage; or, 4. It may be taken for the fear that I have been but now discoursing of. Now the fear that perfect love casts out cannot be that son-like, gracious fear of God, that I have in this last place been treating of; because that fear that love casts out hath torment, but so has not the son-like fear.
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