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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.
Suppose a child doth grievously transgress against, and offend his Father, is the relation between them therefore dissolved? Again, suppose the Father should scourge and chasten the Son for such offence, is the relation between them therefore dissolved? Yea suppose the child should now through ignorance cry, and say, this man is now no more my father, is he therefore now no more his Father? doth not every body see the folly ⟨p. 71⟩of arguings? why of the same nature is that doctrine, that saith, that after we have received the spirit of adoption, that the spirit of bondage is sent to us again to put us in fear of eternal damnation.
Suppose a child doth grevously transgress against, and offend his Father, is the relation between them therefore dissolved? Again, suppose the Father should scourge and chasten the Son for such offence, is the relation between them therefore dissolved? Yea suppose the child should now through ignonorance cry, and say, this man is now no more my father, is he therefore now no more his Father? doth not every body see the folly ⟨p. 71⟩of arguings? why of the same nature is that doctrine, that saith, that after we have received the spirit of adoption, that the spirit of bondage is sent to us again to put us in fear of eternal damnation.
Know then that thy sin, after thou hast received the spirit of adoption to cry unto God Father, Father, is counted the transgression of a child (not of a slave) and that all that happeneth to thee for that transgression is but the chastisement of a Father. And what Son as he whom the father chasteneth not? It is worth your observation.
Know then that thy sin, after thou hast received the spirit of adoption to cry unto God Father, Father, is counted the transgression of a child (not of a slave) and that all that happeneth to thee for that transgression is but the chastizement of a Father. And what Son as he whom the father chasteneth not? It is worth your observation.