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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.
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.
3. Remember also that eminent text made mention of in 1 Sam. 12. Fear not, ye have done all this wickedness; and labour to maintain faith in thy soul, of thy being a child, (it being true that thou hast received the spirit of adoption before) and so that thou oughtest not to fall under thy first fears, (because the ground is taken away) of thy eternal damnation.