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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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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.
Quest. Can you give me further reason yet to convict me of the truth of what you say?
Answ. Yes. 1. Because as the Spirit cannot give himself the lie; so he cannot overthrow his own order of working, nor yet contradict that testimony that his servants by his inspiration hath given of his order of working with them.
But he must do the first: If he saith to us (and that after we have received his own testimony, that we are under grace) that yet we are under sin, the Law and wrath.