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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.
3. The state therefore of the sinner being changed, and that too, by the spirits changing his dispensation, leaving off to be now as a spirit of bondage to put us in fear, and coming to our heart, as the spirit of adoption to make us cry father, father, he cannot go back to his first work again; for if so, then he must gratify, yea and also ratify, that profane and Popish doctrine, forgiven to day, unforgiven to morrow, a child of God to day, a child of Hell to morrow; but what saith the Scriptures. Now therefore such are no more strangers, and foreigners, but fellow-Citizens with the Saints, and of the household of God, and are built upon the foundations of the Apostles and Prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief Corner-stone. In whom all the building fitly framed together, groweth into an holy Temple in the Lord, in whom you also are builded together for an habitation of God through the spirit, Ephes. 2.
3. The state therefore of the sinner being changed, and that too, by the spirits changing his dispensation, leaving off to be now as a spirit of bondage to put us in fear, and coming to our heart, as the spirit of adoption to make us cry father, father, he cannot go back to his first workagain; for if so, then he must gratify, yea and also ratifiy, that profane and Popish doctrine, forgiven to day, unforgiven to morrow, a child of God to day, a child of Hell to morrow; but what saith the Scriptures. Now therefore such are no more strangers, and foreiners, but fellow-Citizens with the Saints, and of the houshold of God, and are built upon the foundations of the Apostles and Prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief Corner-stone. In whom all the building fitly framed together, groweth into an holy Temple in the Lord, in whom you also are builded together for an habitation of God through the spirit, Ephes. 2.
Object. But this is contrary to my experience.