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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.
Fifthly. There flows from this godly fear of God, Self-denial. That is an holy abstaining from those things that are either unlawful, or inexpedient; According to that of Nehemiah. The former governors that had been before me, were chargeable unto the people, ⟨p. 116⟩and had taken of them Bread and Wine, besides forty Shekels of Silver, yea even their Servants bear rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God, Nehe. 5.15. Here now was Self-denial, he would not do as they did that went before him neither himself, nor should his Servants; but what what was it that put him upon these acts of Self-denial? The answer is, The fear of God: But so did not I, because of the fear of God.
Fifthly. There flows from this godly fear of God, Selfdenial. That is an holy abstaining from those things that are either unlawful, or inexpedient; According to that of Nehemiah. The former governours that had been before me, were chargeable unto the people, ⟨p. 116⟩and had taken of them Bread and Wine, besides forty Shekels of Silver, yea even their Servants bear rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God, Nehe. 5.15. Here now was Selfdenial, he would not do as they did that went before him neither himself, nor should his Servants; but what what was it that put him upon these acts of Self-denial? The answer is, The fear of God: But so did not I, because of the fear of God.
Now whether by the fear of God, in this place, be meant his word, or the grace of fear in his heart, may perhaps be a Scruple to some, but in my judgment the next must have respect to the latter, to wit, to the grace of fear, for without that be indeed in the heart, the word will not produce that good self-denial in us, that here you find this good man to live in the daily exercise of.
Now whether by the fear of God, in this place, be meant his word, or the grace of fear in his heart, may perhaps be a Scruple to some, but in my judgment the next must have respect to the latter, to wit, to the grace of fear, for without that be indeed in the heart, the word will not produce that good selfdenial in us, that here you find this good man to live in the daily exercise of.