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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 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.
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, saies 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.
Now this fear is also, as you here see, called anguish, and in another place, an Hornet, for it, and the soul that it falls upon, do greet each other as Boys and Bees do. The Hornet puts men in fear, not so as to bring the heart into a sweet compliance with his terror, but so as to stir up the spirit into acts of opposition and resistance, yet ⟨p. 37⟩withal they flee before it. I will send Hornets before thee, which shall drive out thee H•vite, &c. Exod. 23.27.