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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…

Name: A treatise of the fear of God showing what it is, and how distinguished…
Author: John Bunyan

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.

John Bunyan 1628–1688London: printed for N. Ponder, 1679

[2], 236 p. · 57k words · Wing B5603 · ESTC R32009

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1. Of this word [FEAR] as it respecteth God himself, who is the obj…: 1. Of this word [FEAR] as it respecteth God himself, who is the object of our fear.

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His people know him, and have his dread upon them, by virtue whereof there is begot and maintained in them that godly awe and reverence of his Majesty which is agreeable to their profession of him. Let him be your FEAR, and let him be your Dread. Set his Majesty before the eyes of your souls, and let his excellency make you ⟨p. 5⟩afraid with godly fear, Isa. 8.12, 13.

His people know him, and have his dread upon them, by vertue whereof there is begot and maintained in them that godly awe and reverence of his Majesty which is agreeable to their profession of him. Let him be your FEAR, and let him be your Dread. Set his Majesty before the eyes of your souls, and let his excellency make you ⟨p. 5⟩afraid with godly fear, Isa. 8.12, 13.

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There are these things that make God to be the Fear of his People.

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First, His presence is dreadful, and that not only his presence in common, but his special, yea his most comfortable and joyous presence. When God comes to bring a soul news of mercy and salvation, even that visit, that presence of God is fearful. When Jacob went from Beer-sheba towards Haron, he met with God in the way by a dream, in the which he apprehended a Ladder set upon the Earth, whose top reached to Heaven; now in this dream, from the top of this Ladder, he saw the Lord, and heard him speak unto him, not threateningly, not as having his fury come up into his face; but in the most sweet and gracious manner, saluting him with promise of goodness, after promise of goodness, to the number of eight or nine; as will appear if you read the place (

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The book

Title as printed

Author

John Bunyan 1628–1688

Place

London

Bookseller

N. Ponder

Year

1679

Size

[2], 236 p.

Words

56,627

Catalogue

Wing B5603 · ESTC R32009

Text

EEBO-TCP A30211

Passages

723

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

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