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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.
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.
And he must do the second; if after he hath gone through the first work on us, as a spirit of bondage, to the second as a spirit of adoption; he should overthrow as a spirit of bondage AGAIN, what before he had built as a spirit of adoption.
And the third must therefore needs follow, that is, he overthroweth the testimony of his servants; for they have said, That now we receive the spirit of bondage AGAIN to fear no more; that is, after that we by the Holy Ghost are enabled to call God Father, Father.