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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.
4. This godly fear, it floweth from faith, for where the word maketh sound impression on the soul, by that impression, is faith begotten, whence also this fear doth flow. Therefore right hearing of the word, is called the hearing of faith, Gala. 3. verse 2. ⟨p. 101⟩Hence it is said again; By faith Noah being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an Ark to the saving of his house, by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith, (Heb. 11.7.) The word, the warning that he had from God of things not seen as yet, wrought, through faith therein, that fear of God in his heart that made him prepare against unseen dangers, and that he might be an inheritor of unseen happiness.
4. This godly fear, it floweth from faith, for where the word maketh sound impression on the soul, by that impression, is faith begotten, whence also this fear doth flow. Therefore right hearing of the word, is called the hearing of faith, Galla. 3. verse 2. ⟨p. 101⟩Hence it is said again; By faith Noah being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an Ark to the saving of his house, by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith, (Heb. 11.7.) The word, the warning that he had from God of things not seen as yet, wrought, through faith therein, that fear of God in his heart that made him prepare against unseen dangers, and that he might be an inheritour of unseen happiness.
Where, therefore, there is not faith in the word of God, there can be none of this fear; and where the word doth not make sound impression on the soul, there can be none of this faith. So that as vices hang together, & have the links of a chain, dependence one upon another, even so the graces of the spirit also, are the fruits of one another, and have such dependence on each other, that the one cannot be without the other.