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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.
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3. Haman complained that his soul was full of troubles, that God had laid him in the lowest pit, that he had put his acquaintance far from him, and was casting off his soul, and had hid his face from him. That he was afflicted from his youth up, and ready to die with trouble: he saith moreover, that the fierce wrath of God went over him, that his terrors had cut him him off; yea, that by reason of them he was distracted, and yet, even before he maketh any of these complaints, he takes fast hold of God, as his saying, O Lord God of my Salvation, Psal. 88.
3. Haman complained that his soul was full of troubles, that God had laid him in the lowest pit, that he had put his acquaintance far from him, and was casting off his soul, and had hid his face from him. That he was afflicted from his youth up, and ready to die with trouble: he saith moreover, that the fierce wrath of God went over him, that his terrours had cut him him off; yea, that by reason of them he was distracted, and yet, even before he maketh any of these complaints, he takes fast hold of God, as his saying, O Lord God of my Salvation, Psal. 88.
4. The Church in the Lamentations complains that the Lord had afflicted her for her transgressions, and that in the day of his fierce anger; also that he had trodden under foot her mighty men, and that he had called the heathen against her; she says, that he had covered her with a cloud in his anger, that he was an enemy, and that he had hung a chain upon her, she adds moreover that he had shut out her prayer, broken her teeth with gravel stones, and covered her ⟨p. 81⟩with ashes, and in conclusion, that he had utterly rejected her. But what doth she do under all this trial? doth she give up her faith and hope, and return to that fear that begot the first bondage? No, The Lord is my portion, saith my soul, therefore will I hope in him; yea she adds, O Lord, thou hast pleaded the cause of my soul, thou hast redeemed my life, Lamen. 1.5. Chap. 2.1, 2, 5. Chap. 3.7, 8, 16. Chap. 5.22. Chap. 3 24, 31, 58.