and that not only in the concrete,
but the abstract.

of all Perfections.

And fo is the glory

3.

-to be Wor אלה from אלהים אי אליה

fhipped. The other

Names fpeak what

he is in himself, this what he is or
ought to be to us,
worshipped by us.

even a GOD
And this is the
only Name that is attributed to GOD
in the Plural Number, to fhew that
GOD is to be worshipped not only
in the Unity of his Effence, but like-
wie in the Trinity of his Perfons.

II. My Light, that which makes me to fee, and that whereby I fee, illuminatio & lux mea & lumen, lux in himself, lumen to us.

III. My Salvation, in the Syriack u

my Redemption, in the Arab.

my Saviour; but to tranflate it as the Chald. Syr. and our Tranflation have it, my Salvation, is more agreeable both to the Original Word

and the scope of the place; for GOD is not ftrictly our Saviour as 1 but bearbę wπ; as Deave wπC our Saviour, as our Salvation it felf. Indeed I have fometimes thought that the Word y here should more properly have been tranflated Safety than Salvation, as it commonly fignifies}; because Salvation properly denotes an Act, and therefore not a fit Attribute of a Subftance; but fince confidering it more feriously in my Mind, I find that therefore because it is an Act, it is the more competible to GOD, who is actus puriffimus; who is not only our Light, but our Illumination, not only our Tower, but

our

our Protection, not only our Guide, but our Direction, and fo not only our Safeguard, but our Salvation.

IV. The Strength of my Life, " nya Gr. itegarishs Protector, the Arab. tranflates it

the Defender of my Life. But y denotes not the Protector or Defender, but the Protection, Defence and Strength of our Life. And fo GOD is not only he that gives Strength unto our Life, but himself is the Strength of our Life.

V. Whom shall I fear, and of whom shall I be

thclatter denotes ממי אפחד and ממי אירא,afraid

more than the former, a Fear accompanied with Grief, Commotion and Affliction of Spirit, Syr. commotus fum.

Obf. 1. The Lord Jehovah is a Saint's Light,
Salvation, and the Strength of his Life.
2. The confideration thereof fhould keep
out all fear and trouble from our Spi-
rits.

1. The Lord Jehovah is a Saint's Light,
Mic. vii. 8. John i. 9, &c.

1. A Saint's Light, compared to Light. 1. Because without Light we cannot fee to do any business, John xv.

4. 5.

2. Without Light we cannot fee to go any whither.

3. We cannot enjoy comfort in any thing, Pfal. iv. 6.

2. Our Salvation, as the chiefeft good, he

is our Salvation.

1. From the Evil of Sin.

2. From the Evil of Punishment.

3. The Strength, of our Life. 1. Original.

port,

2. Support. 3. Comfort of, 1. Our natural Life.

2. Our Spiritual Life, from Temptations, Corruptions.

3. Our Eternal Life.

Obf. 2. The confideration of GOD's being thus our Light, our Salvation, and the Strength of our Life, fhould keep us from being too forrowful for any thing that hath, and too fearful of any thing that may, happen in the World.

1. From being too forrowful, because whatsoever hath happened, ftill GOD is the fame to us that he was before, and fo we have loft nothing though we have loft all things.

2. From being too feaarful.

1. Do we fear going aftray from GOD? GOD himself is our Light:

2.

The evil of Sin? GOD is our Salvation.

3.--Of Punishment? ftill GOD is our Salvation, who will fave us from the evil of the Punishment; he both will and can fave us.

4.

5.

Death? He is the Strength of our Life Natural,

Corruptions? He is the Strength of our Life Spiritual.

6. Hell? He is the Strength of our Life Eternal.

USE I. Make him thy Light, Salvation, and the Strength of thy Life. Then,

2. Be humbled under all the manifeftations of this thy Father's and thy GOD's Displeasure.

3. Endeavour to find out the true Cause of
it: What eminent fin hath gone before:
What fecret fin ftill remains: Or what
Duty it is GOD points at that thou
fhouldft do.

4. Yet all this while ftill refolve to let go
neither thy hold of GOD, nor thy joy
in him.

But,

5. Still live like one that hath GOD to be
his Light, &c.

1. By placing thy Affections on him.
2. By giving up thy felf unto him.

PSAL Xxxvi. 1.

The tranfgreffion of the wicked faith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

Τ

IT is a great fin not to fear GOD.

I. What is it to fear GOD? fear in Scripture, 1. Is taken for the Object feared, Gen. xxxi.

and by him whom ודרחיל ליה יצחק 42 ברוחיל ליה אבוהי .13 .Iaac feared, v

Try Targ. Onkel. τελέσι τον θεὸν ὅ τόν
φόβον ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ περιέφερεν. Theodoret.

2. The Law of GOD.

3. For the whole Duty of Man, Ecclef. xii.
13. Fob i. 8. fo always in Syriac, as for
ευσέβεια, I Tim, ii. 2. έχοντες μόρφωσιν ἐν-
σεβείας.

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4. Particularly for the Affection or Paffion of fear placed upon GOD as its only Object.

II. What is it in GOD we should fear? 1. His Greatness and Glory, Gen. xxviii.

III. How fhould we fear him? as góß ἀγαθόν ἐςι κὶ σωτήριον, Bafil.

1. Neg.

1. Not so as to run from him, Exod. xx.
18, 19. Gen. iii. 8, 10. Apoc. vi. 16.
2. Not only Punishment, Fam. ii. 19.
Whether is it a fin to fear GOD for
his Punishments?

1. It is a fin to fear only Punishment.
2. To fear the Punishment fo as to look
principally for misery.

3. To fear Punishment in the second place,
and therefore only because it will fe-
parate us from the Prefence and Love
of GOD, is commendable, especially
that it makes us walk more circum-
fpectly before him, Heb. xii. 28, 29.
Mat, x. 28, 29.

2. Pofitively, we are to fear GOD. 1. So as to fear nothing in comparison with him, Mat. x. 28.

2. So as not willingly to do any thing that may difplease him, Prov. viii. 13. c.xvi.6.