A30211:348
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.
9. This godly fear, it flows from our receiving of an answer of prayer, when we supplicated for mercy at the hand of God. See the proof for this. If there be in the Land ⟨p. 106⟩famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be Caterpillars; if their Enemies besiege them in the Land of their Cities, whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be: What prayer and supplication soever be made, by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands towards this house: Then hear thou in Heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest (for thou even thou only knowest the hearts of all the Children of men,) that they may fear thee all the days (of their life,) that they live in the Land which thou gavest unto our Fathers, 1 King. 8.37, 38, 39, 40.
9. This godly fear, it flows from our receiving of an answer of prayer, when we supplicated for mercy at the hand of God. See the proof for this. If there be in the Land ⟨p. 106⟩famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be Catterpillars; if their Enemies besiege them in the Land of their Cities, whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be: What prayer and supplication soever be made, by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands towards this house: Then hear thou in Heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his waies, whose heart thou knowest (for thou even thou only knowest the hearts of all the Children of men,) that they may fear thee all the daies (of their life,) that they live in the Land which thou gavest unto our Fathers, 1 King. 8.37, 38, 39, 40.