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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.
Indeed holy thoughts of God, such, as you see this fear doth exercise the heart withal, prepare the heart to, and for God. This fear therefore it is that David prayed for, for the people, when he said, O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel our Fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination ⟨p. 114⟩of the thoughts of the heart of thy people and prepare their heart unto thee, 1 Chron. 29.18.
Fourthly, There flows from this Fear of God, great reverence of his Majesty, in and under the use and enjoyment of God's holy Ordinances. His Ordinances are his Courts, and Palaces, his Walks and Places where he giveth his presence to those that wait upon him in them, in the fear of his name. And this is the meaning of that of the Apostle. Then had the Churches rest, throughout all Judah, and Galilee, and Samaria and were edified, and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied, Act. 9.31.
And walking] that word, intendeth their use of the ordinances of God. They walked in all the Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord blameless.] This in Old Testament Language is called, treading Gods Courts, and walking in his Paths. This saith the Text, they did here, in the fear of God. That is in a great reverence of that God whose Ordinances they were. You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my Sanctuary I am the Lord, Levit. 19.30. Chap. 26.2.