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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.
Well said, and what after that?
Why, after that I fell into as great fears as ever I was in before.
Ans. All this may be granted, and yet nevertheless, what I have said will abide a truth; for I have not said that after the spirit of adoption is come, a Christian shall not again be in as great fears, for he may have worse than he had at first, but I say, that after the spirit of adoption is come, the spirit of bondage, as such, is sent of God no more to put us into those fears. For, mark, for we have not received the spirit of bondage AGAIN to fear. Let the Word be true, whatever thy experience is. Dost thou not understand me?
After the Spirit of God has told me, and ⟨p. 59⟩also helped me to believe it, that the Lord for Christ's sake hath forgiven mine iniquities; he tells me no more, that they are not forgiven. After the Spirit of God has helped me, by Christ, to call God my Father, he tells me no more that the Devil is my Father. After he hath told me, that I am not under the Law, but under grace, he tells me no more that I am not under grace, but under the Law, and bound over by it, for my sins, to the wrath and judgment of God: But this is the fear, that the Spirit as a spirit of bondage worketh in the soul at first.