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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.
The name of God, what is that, but that ⟨p. 13⟩by which he is distinguished and known from all others? Names are to distinguish by; so man is distinguished from beasts, and Angels from men; so Heaven from Earth, and Darkness from Light; especially when by the name, the nature of the thing is signified and expressed; and so it was in their original, for then names expressed the nature of the thing so named. And therefore it is that the name of God is the object of our fear, because by his name, his nature is expressed. Holy and reverend is his name, Psal. 111.9. And again, he proclaimed the name of the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, God gracious and merciful, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth; keeping mercy for thousands, pardoning iniquity, transgression and sins, and that will by no means clear the guilty, Exod. 3.6, 7.
The name of God, what is that, but that ⟨p. 13⟩by which he is distinguished and known from all others? Names are to distinguish by; so man is distinguished from beasts, and Angels from men; so Heaven from Earth, and Darkness from Light; especially when by the name, the nature of the thing is signified and expressed; and so it was in their original, for then names exprest the nature of the thing so named. And therefore it is that the name of God is the object of our fear, because by his name, his nature is exprest. Holy and reverend is his name, Psal. 111.9. And again, he proclaimed the name of the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, God gracious and mercifull, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth; keeping mercy for thousands, pardoning iniquity, transgression and sins, and that will by no means clear the guilty, Exod. 3.6, 7.