A30211:152
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.
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.
4. This fear puts a man upon crying to God for mercy, and that in most humble manner, now he sensibly cries, now he dejectedly cries, now he feels and cries, now he smarts and cries out, God be merciful to me a sinner, Luke 18.13.
5. This fear makes a man that he cannot accept of that for support, and succour which others that are destitute thereof will take up and be contented with. This man must be washed by God himself, and cleansed from his sin by God himself, Psal. 51