A30211:356
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.
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.
2. This fear makes them have also a very great reverence of his word; for that also, I told you, was the rule of their fear, Princes, said David, persecute me without a cause, but my heart standeth in AWE (in fear) of thy word.