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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.
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, Isa. 63.16, 17.
That sin dissolveth not the relation of Father and Son, is further evident; see Gal. 4.4. When the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son made of a woman, made under the Law, to redeem them that were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption of Sons. And because ye are Sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying Father, Father. Now mark, wherefore thou art no more a Servant, that is, no more under the Law of death, and damnation, but a Son, and if a Son, then an heir of God through Christ.
That sin dissolveth not the relation of Father and Son, is further evident; see