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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.
10. God can tell how to kill thee, and to take thee away from the earth for thy sins, 1 Cor. 11.29, 30, 31, 32.
11. God can tell how to plague thee in thy death, with great plagues, and of long continuance, Psal. 73.45. Deut. 28.
12. What shall I say? God can tell how to let Satan loose upon thee; when thou liest a dying, he can licence him then to assault thee with great temptations, he can tell how to make thee possess the guilt of all thy unkindness towards him, and that when thou, as I said, art going out of the World; he can cause that thy life shall be in continual doubt before thee, and not suffer thee to take any comfort day nor night; yea he can drive thee even to a madness with his chastisements for thy folly, and yet all shall be done by him to thee as a Father chastiseth his Son, Deut. 28.65, 66 67.
12. What shall I say? God can tell how to let Satan loose upon thee; when thou liest a dying, he can licence him then to assault thee with great temptations, he can tell how to make thee possess the guilt of all thy unkindness towards him, and that when thou, as I said, art going out of the World; he can cause that thy life shall be in continual doubt before thee, and not suffer thee to take any comfort day nor night; yea he can drive thee even to a madness with his chastizements for thy folly, and yet all shall be done by him to thee as a Father chastizeth his Son,