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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.
10 Quest. Doth not these fears make thee sometimes think, that it is in vain for thee to wait upon the Lord any longer?
Answ. Yes verily, and I have many times almost come to this conclusion, that I will read, pray, hear, company with Gods people, or the like, no longer.
Well poor Christian, I am glad that thou hast so plainly answered me, but prithee look back upon thy answer, how much of God, dost thou think, is in these things, how much of his Spirit, and the grace of his Word: just none at all, for it cannot be that these things can be the true and natural effects of the workings of the Spirit of God; ⟨p. 67⟩NO not as a spirit of bondage. These are not his doings; dost thou not see the very paw of the Devil in them, yea in every one of thy ten confessions; is there not palpably high wickedness in every one of the effects of this fear?
Well poor Christian, I am glad that thou hast so plainly answered me, but prethee look back upon thy answer, how much of God, dost thou think, is in these things, how much of his Spirit, and the grace of his Word: just none at all, for it cannot be that these things can be the true and natural effects of the workings of the Spirit of God; ⟨p. 67⟩NO not as a spirit of bondage. These are not his doings; dost thou not see the very paw of the Devil in them, yea in every one of thy ten confessions; is there not palpably high wickedness in every one of the effects of this fear?