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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.
3. This fear of God, it flows from an impression, a sound impression that the word of God maketh on our souls; for without an impress of the word, there is no fear of God. Hence it is said that God gave to Israel good laws, statutes and judgements, that they might learn them, and in learning them, learn to fear the Lord their God. Therefore saith God in another place, Gather the people together, men, women and children, and the stranger that is within thy gates, that ⟨p. 100⟩they may hear, and that they may learn to fear the Lord your God, Deut. 6.1, 2. Chap. 31.12.
For as a man drinketh good doctrine into his soul, so he feareth God. If he drinks it in much, he feareth him greatly; if he drinketh it in but little, he feareth him but little; if he drinketh it not in at all, he feareth him not at all.
This therefore teacheth us how to judge who feareth the Lord; they are those that learn, and that stand in awe of the word: those that have by the holy word of God the very form of it self engraven upon the face of their souls, they fear God, Rom. 6.17. But on the contrary, those that do not love good doctrine, that give not place to the wholesome truths of the God of Heaven revealed in his testament, to take place in their souls, but rather despise it, and the true professors of it, they fear not God. For as I said before, this fear of God, it flows from a sound impression that the word of God maketh upon the soul; and therefore
This therefore teacheth us how to judge who feareth the Lord; they are those that learn, and that stand in awe of the word: those that have by the holy word of God the very form of it self engraven upon the face of their souls, they fear God,