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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.
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.
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, dependance one upon another, even so the graces of the spirit also, are the fruits of one another, and have such dependance on each other, that the one cannot be without the other.
No faith, no fear of God: Devils faith, Devils fear, Saints faith, Saints fear.
5. This godly fear, it also floweth from sound repentance for and from sin, godly sorrow worketh repentance, & godly repentance produceth this fear. For behold, says Paul, This self same thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, what clearing of your selves, yea what indignations, ⟨p. 102⟩yea what fear, 2 Cor. 7.10, 11. Repentance is the effect of sorrow, and sorrow is the effect of smart, and smart the effect of faith: now therefore fear must needs be an effect of, and flow from repentance.
5. This godly fear, it also floweth from sound repentance for and from sin, godly sorrow worketh repentance, & godly repentance produceth this fear. For behold, saies Paul, This self same thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, what clearing of your selves, yea what indignations,