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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.
There is mercy with thee. This the soul has sense of an hope in, and therefore feareth ⟨p. 103⟩God. Indeed, nothing can lay a stronger obligation upon the heart to fear God, than sense of, or hope in mercy. See Jer. 33.8, 9.
This begetteth true tenderness of heart, true godly softness of spirit; this truly endeareth the affections to God: and in this true tenderness, softness, and indearedness of affection to God, lieth the very essence of this fear of the Lord, as is manifest by the fruit of this fear when we shall come to speak of it.
7. This fear of God, flows from a due consideration of the judgments of God, that are to be executed in the world, yea upon professors too: yea further, Gods people themselves, I mean, as to themselves, have such a consideration of his judgments towards them, as to produce this godly fear.
When Gods judgments are in the earth, they effect the fear of his name, in the hearts of his own people, My flesh trembleth for fear of thee, and I am, said David, afraid of thy judgments,