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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.
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. Heb. 12. last.
For God expects that we serve him with fear and trembling, and it is odious among men, for a man in the presence, or about the service of his Prince, to behave himself lightly, and without due reverence of that Majesty, in whose presence, and about whose business he is: And if so, how can their service to God have any thing like acceptation from the hand of God, that is done, not in, but without the fear of God? this service must needs be an abomination to him, and these servers must come off with rebuke.