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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.
I come now to the second thing, to wit, to show you what this fear of God flows from.
I come now to the second thing, to wit, to shew you what this fear of God flows from.
First, This fear, this grace of fear, this son-like fear of God, It flows from the distinguishing love of God to his elect. I will be their God, saith he, and I will put my fear in their hearts. None other obtain it but those that are enclosed and bound up in that bundle. Therefore they, in the same place are said to be those that are wrapped up in the eternal or everlasting covenant of God, and so designed to be the people that should be blessed with this fear. I will make an everlasting covenant with them, saith God, that I will not turn away from them to do them good, but I will put my fear in their hearts, and they shall not depart from me, Jer. 32.40.
First, This fear, this grace of fear, this son-like fear of God, It flows from the distinguishing love of God to his elect. I will be their God, saith he, and I will put my fear in their hearts. None other obtain it but those that are inclosed and bound up in that bundle. Therefore they, in the same place are said to be those that are wrapt up in the eternal or everlasting covenant of God, and so designed to be the people that should be blessed with this fear. I will make an everlasting covenant with them, saith God, that I will not turn away from them to do them good, but I will put my fear in their hearts, and they shall not depart from me, Jer. 32.40.
This covenant declares unto men, that God hath, in his heart, distinguishing love for some of the children of men, for he saith, he will be their God, that he will not leave