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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.
First, There flows from this godly fear, a godly reverence of God. He is great, said David, and greatly to be feared, in the assembly of his Saints. God, as I have already showed you, is the proper object of godly fear, it is his Person and Majesty that this fear always causeth the eye of the soul to be upon. Behold, said David, as the eyes of Servants look unto the hand of their Masters, and as the eyes of a Maiden unto the hand of her Mistress: so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until he have mercy upon us, Psal. 122. verse 2.
First, There flows from this godly fear, a godly reverence of God. He is great, said David, and greatly to be feared, in the assembly of his Saints. God, as I have already shewed you, is the proper object of godly fear, it is his Person and Majestly that this fear alwaies causeth the eye of the soul to be upon. Behold, said David, as the eyes of Servants look unto the hand of their Masters, and as the eyes of a Maiden unto the hand of her Mistress: so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until he have mercy upon us, Psal. 122. verse 2.
Nothing aweth the soul that feareth God, so much as doth the glorious Majesty of God.
1. His person is above all things feared ⟨p. 109⟩by them, I fear God, said Joseph, Gen. 42.18. That is, more than any other; I stand in awe of him, he is my dread, he is my fear, I do all mine actions as in his presence, as in his sight, I reverence his holy and glorious Majesty, doing all things as with fear and trembling before him.