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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.
I will yet give you two or three instances more wherein it will be manifest that what ever happeneth to thee, I mean as a chastisement for sin, after the spirit of adoption is come, thou oughtest to hold fast by faith the relation of Father and Son.
I will yet give you two or three instances more wherein it will be manifest that what ever happeneth to thee, I mean as a chastizement for sin, after the spirit of adoption is come, thou oughtest to hold fast by faith the relation of Father and Son.
1. The people spoken of by Moses, are said to have lightly esteemed the rock of their salvation, which rock is Jesus Christ (and that is a grievous sin indeed) yet, saith he, Is not God thy Father that hath bought thee? and then puts them upon considering the days of old Deut. 32.6.
1. The people spoken of by Moses, are said to have lightly esteemed the rock of their salvation, which rock is Jesus Christ (and that is a grievous sin indeed) yet, saith he, Is not God thy Father that hath bought thee? and then puts them upon considering the daies of old Deut. 32.6.
2. They in the Prophet Jeremiah had played the harlot with many lovers, and done evil things as they could; and as another Scripture hath it, gone a whoring from under their God, yet God calls to them by the Prophet saying, Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me my Father thou art the God of my youth? Jer. 3.1—7