A30211:381
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.
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.
It is one thing to be conversant in Gods ordinances, and another to be conversant in them, with a due reverence of the Majesty, and name of that God whose Ordinances ⟨p. 115⟩they are: it is common for men to do the first, but none can do the last without this fear. In thy fear, said David, will I worship, Psal. 5.7. It is this fear of God, therefore from whence doth flow that great reverence that his Saints have in them, of his Majesty, in, and under the use and enjoyment of Gods holy ordinances: and consequently, that makes our service in the performance of them acceptable to God through Christ. Heb. 12. last.
It is one thing to be conversant in Gods ordinances, and another to be conversant in them, with a due reverence of the Majesty, and name of that God whose Ordinances ⟨p. 115⟩they are: it is common for men to do the first, but none can do the last without this fear. In thy fear, said David, will I worship, Psal. 5.7. It is this fear of God, therefore from whence doth flow that great reverence that his Saints have in them, of his Majesty, in, and under the use and injoyment of Gods holy ordinances: and consequently, that makes our service in the performance of them acceptable to God through Christ.