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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.
That the Holy Ghost checks those, who under their chastisements for sin, forgot to call God their Father. You have, saith Paul; forgotten the Exhortation that speaketh unto you as unto Children, my Son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him. Yea, observe yet further, that Gods chastising of his children for their sin, is a sign of grace and love, and not of his wrath, and thy damnation; therefore NOW there is no ground for the aforesaid fear.
That the Holy Ghost checks those, who under their chastizements for sin, forgot to call God their Father. You have, saith Paul; forgotten the Exhortation that speaketh unto you as unto Children, my Son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him. Yea, observe yet further, that Gods chastizing of his children for their sin, is a sign of grace and love, and not of his wrath, and thy damnation; therefore NOW there is no ground for the aforesaid fear.
Now if God would not have those that have received the spirit of the Son, however ⟨p. 72⟩he chastises them, to forget the relation, that by the adoption of Sons, they stand in to God, if he checks them that do forget it, when his rod is upon their backs for sin; then it is evident that those fears that thou hast under a colour of the coming again of the spirit, as a spirit of bondage, to put thee in fear of eternal damnation, is nothing else but Satan disguised, the better to play his pranks upon thee.