A30211:291
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.
1. Consider that God thinks meet to have it so, and he is wiser in heart than thou; he knows best how to secure his people from sin, and to that end hath given them Law and Commandments to read, that they may learn to fear him as a Father; Job 37.24. Eccles. 3.14. Deut. 17.18, 19.
2. Consider, he is mighty in power; if he touch it but with a fatherly touch, man nor Angel cannot bear it; yea Christ makes use of that argument, he hath power to cast into hell, fear him, Luke 12.4, 5.
3. Consider that he is every where, thou canst not be out of his sight, or presence; nor out of the reach of his hand. Fear ye not me saith the Lord? can any hide himself in secret places that I should not see him, saith the Lord? do not I fill Heaven and Earth saith the Lord? Jer. 5.22. chap. 23.24