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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. This fear, flows from a new heart. This fear is not in men by nature; the fear of Devils they may have, as also an ungodly fear of God; but this fear is not in any, but where there dwelleth a new heart, another fruit and effect of this everlasting covenant, and of this distinguishing love of God.
An new heart also will I give them, a new heart, what a one is that? why? the same Prophet saith in another place, A heart to fear me, a circumcised one, a sanctified one, Jer. 32.39. Ezek. 11.19. Chap. 36.26.
So then, until a man receive an heart from God, an heart from Heaven, a new heart; he has not this fear of God in him. New wine must not be put into old bottles, lest the one, to wit, the bottles mar the wine, or the wine the bottles, but new wine must have new bottles, and then both shall be preserved, Matth. 9.17.