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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.
1. Because that the soul by closing through the promise, by the spirit, with Jesus Christ, is removed off of that foundation upon which it stood when it justly feared damnation: It hath received NOW forgiveness of sin, it is now no more under the law, but in Jesus Christ by faith; therefore there is now NO condemnation to it, Act. 26.18. Rom. 6.14. chap. 8.1.
1. Because that the soul by closing through the promise, by the spirit, with Jesus Christ, is removed off of that foundation upon which it stood when it justly feared damnation: It hath received NOW forgiveness of sin, it is now no more under the law, but in Jesus Christ by faith; therefore there is now NO condemnation toit, Act. 26.18. Rom. 6.14. chap. 8.1.
The ground-work therefore being now taken away, the spirit worketh that fear no more.
2. He cannot, after he hath come to the soul as a spirit of adoption, come again as a spirit of bondage to put the soul into his first fear, to wit, a fear of eternal damnation, because he cannot say, and unsay; do and undo. As a spirit of adoption he told me that my sins were forgiven me, that I was included in the covenant of grace, that God was my Father through Christ that I was under the promise of salvation, and that this calling and gift of God to me is permanent, and without repentance. And do you think, that after he hath told me ⟨p. 57⟩