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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.
This fear oftentimes took hold of the Children of Israel when they were in the Wilderness in their journey to the promised Land; still they feared that God in this place would destroy them, but not with that fear that made them willing to submit, for their sins, to the judgment which they fear, but with that fear that made them let fly against God.
This fear showed it self in them, even at the beginning of their voyage, and was rebuked by Moses at the Red Sea, but it was not there, nor yet at any other place, so ⟨p. 36⟩subdued, but that it would rise again in them at times to the dishonour of God, and the a-new making of them guilty of sin before him, Exod. 14.11, 12, 13. Numb. 14.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
This fear shewed it self in them, even at the beginning of their voyage, and was rebuked by Moses at the Red Sea, but it was not there, nor yet at any other place, so ⟨p. 36⟩subdued, but that it would rise again in them at times to the dishonour of God, and the a-new making of them guilty of sin before him, Exod. 14.11, 12, 13. Numb. 14.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
This fear is that which God said, he would send before them, in the day of Joshua, even a fear that should possess the inhabitants, of the land, to wit, a fear that should arise for that faintness of heart that they should be swallowed up of, at their apprehending of Joshua in his approaches towards them to destroy them. I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. This day, says God, will I begin to put the dread of thee, and the fear of thee upon the Nations that are under the whole Heavens who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee, Dut. 2.25. Chap. 11.25.