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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
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.
We have read how dreadful and how terrible even the presence of Angels have been unto men, and that when they have brought them good tidings from Heaven, Judg. 13. v. 22. Mat. 28.5. Mark 16.5, 6.
Now if Angels which are but creatures, are, through the glory that God has put upon them, so fearful and terrible in their appearance to men; how much more dreadful and terrible must God himself be to us, who are but dust and ashes? When Daniel had the vision of his salvation sent him from Heaven (for so it was) O Daniel, said the messenger, a man greatly beloved; yet behold the dread and terror of the person speaking fell with that weight upon this ⟨p. 7⟩good mans soul, that he could not stand, nor bear up under it. He stood trembling, and cries out, O my Lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength. And how can the servant of this my Lord talk with this my Lord? for as for me straightway there remaineth no strength in me, Dan. 10.10, 11, 12, 17.
Now if Angels which are but creatures, are, through the glory that God has put upon them, so fearful and terrible in their appearance to men; how much more dreadful and terrible must God himself be to us, who are but dust and ashes? When Daniel had the vision of his salvation sent him from Heaven (for so it was) O Daniel, said the messenger, a man greatly beloved; yet behold the dread and terrour of the person speaking fell with that weight upon this ⟨p. 7⟩good mans soul, that he could not stand, nor bear up under it. He stood trembling, and cries out, O my Lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength. And how can the servant of this my Lord talk with this my Lord? for as for me straightway there remaineth no strength in me,