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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.
It also maintains in the soul a Son-like confession of sin, and a justifying of God under all the rebukes that he grieveth us with. It also engageth us to come to him, to claim and lay hold of former mercies, to expect more, and to hope a good end shall be made of all Gods present dispensations towards us, Mich. 7.9. Lam. 1.18. Psal. 77.10, 11, 12. Lam. 3.31, 32, 33, 34.
Now God would have us thus fear his rod, because he is resolved to chastise us therewith if so be we sin against him, as I have already showed; for although Gods bowels turn within him, even while he is threatening his people, yet if we sin, he will ⟨p. 85⟩lay on the rod so hard, as to make us cry, Woe unto us that we have sinned (Lam. 5.16.) and therefore, as I said, we should be afraid of his judgments, yet only as afore is provided as of the rod, wrath and judgment of a Father.
Now God would have us thus fear his rod, because he is resolved to chastize us therewith if so be we sin against him, as I have already shewed; for although Gods bowels turn within him, even while he is threatning his people, yet if we sin, he will ⟨p. 85⟩lay on the rod so hard, as to make us cry, Wo unto us that we have sinned (Lam. 5.16.) and therefore, as I said, we should be afraid of his judgments, yet only as afore is provided as of the rod, wrath and judgment of a Father.