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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
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.
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 (Gen. 28.10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.) Yet I say, when he awoke, all the grace that discovered it self in this heavenly vision to him, could not keep him from dread and fear of God's Majesty.
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 threatningly, 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 (Gen. 28.10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.) Yet I say, when he awoke, all the grace that discovered it self in this heavenly vision to him, could not keep him from dread and fear of God's Majesty.
And Jacob awoke out of his sleep, and said, Surely the Lord was in this place and I knew it not; and he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place? this is none