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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.
Besides, the direct tendency of the fear that the Spirit of God, as a spirit of bondage worketh in the soul, is to cause us to come repenting home to God by Jesus Christ, but these latter fears tend directly to make a man, (he having first denied the work of God, as he will, if he falleth in with them) to run quite away from God, and from h•s grave to him in Christ as will evidently appear ⟨p. 65⟩if thou givest but a plain and honest answer to these questions following.
Besides, the direct tendency of the fear that the Spirit of God, as a spirit of bondage worketh in the soul, is to cause us to come repenting home to God by Jesus Christ, but these latter fears tend directly to make a man, (he having first denyed the work of God, as he will, if he falleth in with them) to run quite away from God, and from h•s grave to him in Christ as will evidently appear ⟨p. 65⟩if thou givest but a plain and honest answer to these questions following.
1. Quest. Doth not these fears make thee question, whether there was ever a work of grace wrought in thy soul?
Answ. Yes, verily that they do.