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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.
6. God can tell how to fight against thee with the sword of his mouth, and to make thee a Butt for his Arrows; and this is a dispensation most dreadful, Rev. 2.16. Job 6.4. Psal. 38.2, 3, 4, 5.
7. God can tell how so to bow thee down with guilt and distress, that thou shalt in no wise be able to lift up thy head, Psal. 40.12.
8. God can tell how to break thy bones, and to make thee by reason of that to live in continual anguish of spirit: yea he can send a fire into thy bones that shall burn, and none ⟨p. 76⟩shall quench it, Psal. 51.8. Lam. 3.4. chap. 1.13. Psa. 102.3. Job 30.30.
8. God can tell how to break thy bones, and to make thee by reason of that to live in continual anguish ofspirit: yea he can send a fire into thy bones that shall burn, and none