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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.
But then, I say, when the hand of God is upon thee, how grievous soever it be, take heed, and beware that thou give not way to thy first fears, lest as I said before, thou addest to thine affliction; and to help thee here; Let me give thee a few instances of the carriages of some of the Saints under some of the most heavy afflictions that they have met with for sin,
1. Job was in great affliction, and that, as he confessed for sin, (Joh. 7.20.) Insomuch that he said, God had set him for his mark to shoot at, and that he ran upon him like a Giant; that he took him by the neck, and shook him to pieces, and counted him for his enemy, that he hid his face from him, and that he could not tell where to find him, yet he counted not all this as a sign of a damnable state, but as a trial, and chastisement, and said when he was in the hottest of this battle, when I am tried, I shall come forth like gold. And again, when he was pressed upon by the tempter to think that God would kill him, he answers with greatest confidence, Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, Job 16.14. ver. 12. Chap. 19.11. Chap. 23.8, 9, 10. Chap. 13.15.
1. Job was in great affliction, and that, as he confessed for sin, (Joh. 7.20.) Insomuch that he said, God had set him for his mark to shoot at, and that he ran upon him like a Giant; that he took him by the neck, and shook him to pieces, and counted him for his enemy, that he hid his face from him, and that he could not tell where to find him, yet he counted not all this as a sign of a damnable state, but as a tryal, and chastizement, and said when he was in the hottest of this battel, when I am tried, I shall come forth like gold. And again, when he was pressed upon by the tempter to think that God would kill him, he answers with greatest confidence, Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him,