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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.
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.
Sixthly, There flows from this godly fear of God, singleness of heart, Col. 3, 2. Singleness of heart both to God and man; singlenes 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.
A man is more subject to nothing, then to swerve from singleness of heart in his service to God, and obedience to his Will.
How doth the Lord charge the Children of Israel, and all their obedience, and that for seventy years together, with the want of singleness of heart towards him, when ye fasted, and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast to me, even to me. And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did you not eat for