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A treatise of the fear of God showing what it is, and how distinguished…A treatise of the fear of God shewing what it is, and how distinguished…
A treatise of the fear of God showing what it is, and how distinguished from that what is not so : also whence it comes, who has it, what are the effects, and what the privileges of those that have it in their hearts / by John Bunyan.A treatise of the fear of God shewing what it is, and how distinguished from that what is not so : also whence it comes, who has it, what are the effects, and what the priviledges of those that have it in their hearts / by John Bunyan.
London: printed for N. Ponder, 1679
Of several sorts of fear of God in the heart of the Children of men.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Namely, to show that there is a fear of God, that flows from some of his dispensations to men, which yet are neither universal, nor saving.
Namely, to shew that there is a fear of God, that flows from some of his dispensations to men, which yet are neither universal, nor saving.
This fear when opposed to that which ⟨p. 35⟩is saving, may be called an ungodly fear of God; I shall describe it by these several particulars that follow.
First, There is a fear of God that causeth a continual grudging, discontent, and heart-risings against God under the hand of God; And that is, when the dread of God in his coming upon men, to deal with them for their sins, is apprehended by them, and yet by this dispensation they have no change of heart, to submit to God thereunder.
The sinners under this dispensation cannot shake God out of their mind, nor yet graciously tremble before him, but through the unsanctified frame that they now are in, they are afraid with ungodly fear, and so in their minds let fly against him.