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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.
13. Further, God can tell how to tumble thee from off thy death-bed in a cloud, ⟨p. 77⟩he can let thee die in the dark; when thou art dying, thou shalt not know whither thou art going, to wit, whether to Heaven or to Hell. Yea he can tell how to let thee seem to come short of life, both in thine own eyes, and also in the eyes of them that behold thee. Let us therefore fear, says the Apostle (though not with slavish, yet with filial fear,) lest a promise being lest us of entering into rest, any of us should seem to come short of it, Heb. 4.1.
13. Further, God can tell how to tumble thee from off thy death-bed in a cloud, ⟨p. 77⟩he can let thee die in the dark; when thou art dying, thou shalt not know whither thou art going, to wit, whether to Heaven or to Hell. Yea he can tell how to let thee seem to come short of life, both in thine own eyes, and also in the eyes of them that behold thee. Let us therefore fear, saies the Apostle (though not with slavish, yet with filial fear,) lest a promise being lest us of entring into rest, any of us should seem to come short of it, Heb. 4.1.
Now all this, and much more can God do to HIS as a Father by his rod, and Father by rebukes; ah who know but those that are under them, what terrors, fears, distresses and amazements, God can bring his people into; he can put them into a furnace, a fire, and no tongue can tell what, so unsearchable and fearful are his Fatherly chastisements, and yet never give them the spirit of bondage again to fear. Therefore if thou art a Son, take heed of sin, lest all these things overtake thee, and come upon thee.
Now all this, and much more can God do to HIS as a Father by his rod, and Father by rebukes; ah who know but those that are under them, what terrours, fears, distresses and amazements, God can bring his people into; he can put them into a furnace, a fire, and no tongue can tell what, so unsearchable and fearful are his Fatherly chastizements, and yet never give them the spirit of bondage again to fear. Therefore if thou art a Son, take heed of sin, lest all these things overtake thee, and come upon thee.