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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.
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, ⟨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.
Sinner, do not deceive thy self, if thou art a stranger to sound repentance, which standeth in sorrow and shame, before God, for sin, as also in turning from it, thou hast no fear of God, I mean none of this godly fear, for that is the fruits of, and floweth from sound repentance,