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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.
9. By pouring into our hearts abundance of horrid blasphemies. Or,
10. By putting of wrong constructions on the rod, and chastising hand of God. Or,
10. By putting of wrong constructions on the rod, and chastizing hand of God. Or,
11. By charging upon us, that our ill behaviours under the rod, and chastising hand of God, is a sign that we indeed have no grace, but are down-right damned graceless reprobates.
11. By charging upon us, that our ill behavours under the rod, and chastizing hand of God, is a sign that we indeed have no grace, but are down-right damned graceless reprobates.
By these things and others like these, Satan, I say, Satan bringeth the Child of God, not only to the borders, but even into the bowels of the fears of damnation, after it hath received a blessed testimony of eternal life, and that by the holy spirit of adoption.