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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.
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
4. Consider that he is holy, and cannot ⟨p. 86⟩look with liking upon the sins of his own people. Therefore says Peter, Be as obedient children, not fashioning your selves according to your former lusts in your ignorance, but as he that hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation, because it is written, be ye holy, for I am holy. And if ye call on the Father who without respect of persons, judgeth according to every mans work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear.
4. Consider that he is holy, and cannot ⟨p. 86⟩look with liking upon the sins of his own people. Therefore saies Peter, Be as obedient children, not fashioning your selves according to your former lusts in your ignorance, but as he that hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation, because it is written, be ye holy, for I am holy. And if ye call on the Father who without respect of persons, judgeth according to every mans work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear.
5. Consider that he is good, and has been good to thee, good in that he hath singled thee out from others, and saved thee from their death and hell, though thou perhaps was worse in thy life than those that he left when he laid hold on thee. O this should engage thy heart to fear the Lord all the days of thy life: They shall fear the Lord, and his goodness in the latter days,