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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.
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, Psal. 119.120. When God smote Uzza, David was afraid of God that day, Chron. 13.12. Indeed many regard not the works of the Lord, nor take notice of the operation of his hands, and such cannot fear the Lord. But others observe and regard, and wisely consider of his doings, and of the judgments that he executeth, ⟨p. 104⟩and that makes them fear the Lord.
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, Psal. 119.120. When God smote Vzza, David was afraid of God that day, Chron. 13.12. Indeed many regard not the works of the Lord, nor take notice of the opperation of his hands, and such cannot fear the Lord. But others observe and regard, and wisely consider of his doings, and of the judgments that he executeth, ⟨p. 104⟩and that makes them fear the Lord.