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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.
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.
Now although this godly fear is not to last always with us, (as I shall further show you anon) yet it greatly differs from that which is wholly ungodly of it self, both because of the Author, and also of the effects of it. Of the Author I have told you before, I now shall tell you what it doth.
Now although this godly fear is not to last alwaies with us, (as I shall further shew you anon) yet it greatly differs from that which is wholly ungodly of it self, both because of the Author, and also of the effects of it. Of the Author I have told you before, I now shall tell you what it doth.