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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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2. This is evident also, because the covenant in which now the soul is interested, abideth, and is everlasting, not upon the supposition of my obedience, but upon the unchangeable purpose of God, and the efficacy of the obedience of Christ, whose blood also hath confirmed it. It is ordered in all things, and sure, said David; and this, said he, is all my salvation, (2 Sam. 23.5.)
2. This is evident also, because the covenant in which now the soul is interested, abideth, and is everlasting, not upon the supposition of my obedience, but upon the unchangable purpose of God, and the efficacy of the obedience of Christ, whose blood also hath confirmed it. It is ordered in all things, and sure, said David; and this, said he, is all my salvation, (2 Sam. 23.5.)
The covenant then is everlasting in it self, being established upon so good a foundation, and therefore standeth in it self everlastingly bent for the good of them that are involved in it. Hear the tenor of the covenant, and God's attesting of the truth thereof. This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my Laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts, and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people; And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, know the Lord, for they shall all know me; from the least to the greatest; ⟨p. 61⟩for I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and iniquities I will remember no more, Heb. 8.10, 11, 12. Now if God will do thus unto those that he hath comprised in his everlasting covenant of grace, then he will remember their sins no more, that is, unto condemnation; (for so it is that he doth forget them) then cannot the Holy Ghost, who also is one with the Father and the Son, come to us again (even after we are possessed with these glorious fruits of this covenant) as a spirit of bondage, to put us in fear of damnation.