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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.
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. Isa. 6. But do you think that this outcry was caused by unbelief? no, nor yet begotten by slavish fear, this was to him the vision of his Saviour with whom also he had communion before, Chap. 1.2, 3, 4, 5. It was the glory of that God with whom he had now to do, that turned, as was noted before of Daniel, his comeliness in him into Corruption, and that gave him, yet greater sense of the disproportion that was betwixt his God and him, and so a greater sight of his defiled and polluted nature.
See also the truth of this in that vision of the Prophet Isaiah. Wo 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? saies he, mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts. Isa. 6. But do you think that this outcry was caused by unbelief? no, nor yet begotten by slavish fear, this was to him the vision of his Saviour with whom also he had communion before, Chap. 1.2, 3, 4, 5. It was the glory of that God with whom he had now to do, that turned, as was noted before of Daniel, his comliness in him into Corruption, and that gave him, yet greater sense of the disproportion that was betwixt his God and him, and so a greater sight of his defiled and polluted nature.
3. Add to this the revelation of Gods goodness, and it must needs make his presence dreadful to us; for when a poor defiled creature shall see, that this great God, hath, notwithstanding his greatness, goodness in his heart, and mercy to bestow upon him; this makes his presence yet the more dreadful. They shall fear the Lord and ⟨p. 10⟩