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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.
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.
This fear of God must not be, cannot be found in old hearts, old hearts are not bottles out of which this fear of God proceeds, but 'tis from an honest and good heart, from a new one, from such an one that is also an ⟨p. 99⟩effect of the everlasting covenant, and love of God to men.