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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.
This grace of fear therefore is a very excellent thing, because it yieldeth such excellent fruit as this. For this Self-denial, of how little esteem soever it be with some, yet the want of it, (if the words of Christ be true, as they are) takes quite away from even a professor, the very name of a disciple. Mat. 10.37, 38. Luke 14 ver. 26, 27.33.
They, says Nehemiah, Lorded it over the Brethren. but so did not I. They took Bread ⟨p. 118⟩and Wine, and forty Shekels of Silver of them, but so did not I yea even their Servants bare rule over the people, but so did not I because of the fear of God.
They, saies Nehemiah, Lorded it over the Brethren. but so did not I. They took Bread ⟨p. 118⟩and Wine, and forty Shekles of Silver of them, but so did not I yea even their Servants bare rule over the people, but so did not I because of the fear of God.
Sixthly, There flows from this godly fear of God, singleness of heart, Col. 3, 2. Singleness of heart both to God and man; singleness of heart; that is it which in an other place is called, sincerity, and godly simplicity, and it is this, when a man doth a thing simply for the sake of him or of the Law, that commands it, without respect to this by end, or that desire of praise or of vain-glory from others. I say when our obedience to God is done by us simply, or alone for Gods sake, for his words sake without any regard to this or that by-end or reserve, not with eye service, as men pleasers, but with singleness of heart, fearing God.