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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.
If his children forsake my Law, and walk not in my judgments; if they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments, then will I visit their transgressions with a rod, and their iniquities with stripes; nevertheless my loving-kindness I will not utterly take away from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail, Psal. 89.30, 33.
Now if sin doth not dissolve the covenant, if sin doth not cast me out of this covenant, which is made personally with the Son of God, and into the hands of which by the grace of God I am put, then, ought I not, though I have sinned, to fear with my first fears.
2. Sin, after that the spirit of adoption is come, cannot dissolve the relation of Father, ⟨p. 70⟩and Son, of Father and child. And this the Church did rightly assert, and that when her heart was under great hardness, and when she had the guilt of erring from his ways, saith she, Doubtless thou art our Father, Doubtless thou art, though this be our case, and though Israel should not acknowledge us for such, Isa. 63.16, 17.
2. Sin, after that the spirit of adoption is come, cannot dissolve the relation of Father, ⟨p. 70⟩and Son, of Father and child. And this the Church did rightly assert, and that when her heart was under great hardness, and when she had the guilt of erring from his waies, saith she, Doubtless thou art our Father, Doubtless thou art, though this be our case, and though Israel should not acknowledge us for such,