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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
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.
2. When God giveth his presence to his people, that his presence causeth them to appear to themselves more, what they are, than at other times, by all other light, they can see. O my Lord, said he, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me; and why was that, but because by the glory of that vision, he saw his own vileness more than at other times. So again. I alone, says he, saw this great vision; and what follows? why? and my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength, Dan. 10.8. By the presence of God, when we have it indeed, even our best things are our comeliness, our Sanctity and righteousness, and all do immediately turn to corruption, and polluted rags. The brightness of his glory dims them as the clear light of the ⟨p. 9⟩shining Sun, puts out the glory of the fire or candle, and covers them with the shadow of death.
2. When God giveth his presence to his people, that his presence causeth them to appear to themselves more, what they are, than at other times, by all other light, they can see. O my Lord, said he, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me; and why was that, but because by the glory of that vision, he saw his own vileness more than at other times. So again. I alone, saies he, saw this great vision; and what follows? why? and my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength, Dan. 10.8. By the presence of God, when we have it indeed, even our best things are our comliness, our Sanctity and righteousness, and all do immediately turn to corruption, and polluted rags. The brightness of his glory dimns them as the clear light of the ⟨p. 9⟩shining Sun, puts out the glory of the fire or candle, and covers them with the shadow of death.
See also the truth of this in that vision of the Prophet Isaiah. Woe is me, said he, for I am undone, for I am a man of polluted lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips. Why? what's the matter? how came the Prophet by this sight? why? says he, mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts.