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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.
But I say, let the time be longer or shorter, it is the Spirit of God that holdeth him under this yoke, and it is good that a man should be HIS time holden under it. As is that saying of the lamentation. It is good that a man bear the yoke in his youth. That is, at his first awakening (Lamen. 3.27.) So long as seems good to this holy Spirit to work in this manner by the Law.
But I say, let the time be longer or shorter, it is the Spirit of God that holdeth him under this yoak, and it is good that a man should be HIS time helden under it. As is that saying of the lamentation. It is good that a man bear the yoak in his youth. That is, at his first awakning (Lamen. 3.27.) So long as seems good to this holy Spirit to work in this manner by the Law.
Now, as I said, the sinner at first is by the Spirit of God held in this bondage, that is, hath such a discovery of his sin, and of his damnation for sin made to him, and also is held so fast under the sense thereof, that it is not in the power of any man, nor yet of the very Angels in Heaven to release him, or set him free until the Holy Spirit changeth his ministration, and comes in the sweet and peaceable tidings of salvation by Christ in the Gospel, to his poor, dejected, and afflicted conscience.
Thirdly, I now come to show you what this fear doth in the soul.
Thirdly, I now come to shew you what this fear doth in the soul.