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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.
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2. As this fear makes a man judge himself, and cast himself down at Gods foot, so it makes him condole and bewail his misery before him, which is also well pleasing in his sight. I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, saying, thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a Bullock unaccustomed to the yoke, &c. Jer. 31, 18, 19.
2. As this fear makes a man judge himself, and cast himself down at Gods foot, so it makes him condole and bewail his misery before him, which is also well pleasing in his sight. I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, saying, thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a Bullock unaccustomed to the yoak, &c. Jer. 31, 18, 19.
3. This fear makes a man lie at Gods foot, and puts his mouth in the dust if so be there may be hope. This also is well-pleasing to God, because now is the sinner as nothing, and in his own eyes less than nothing, as to any good or desert. He sitteth alone ⟨p. 54⟩and keepeth silence because he hath now this yoke upon him. He putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope, Lamen. 3.28, 29.
3. This fear makes a man lie at Gods foot, and puts his mouth in the dust if so be there may be hope. This also is well-pleasing to God, because now is the sinner as nothing, and in his own eyes less than nothing, as to any good or desert. He sitteth alone ⟨p. 54⟩and keepeth silence because he hath now this yoak upon him. He putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope, Lamen. 3.28, 29.