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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.
Ninthly. There floweth from this fear of God, a readiness, or willingness, at Gods Call, to give up our best enjoyments to his dispose. This is evident in Abraham, who at Gods call, without delay, rose early in the morning to offer up his only and well-beloved Isaac a burnt offering in the place where God should appoint him.
Ninthly. There floweth from this fear of God, a readiness, or willingness, at Gods Call, to give up our best injoyments to his dispose. This is evident in Abraham, who at Gods call, without delay, rose early in the morning to offer up his only and well-beloved Isaac a burnt offering in the place where God should appoint him.
It was a rare thing that Abraham did, and had he not had this rare grace, this fear of God, he would not, he could not have done, to Gods liking, SO wonderful a thing. 'Tis true, the Holy Ghost also makes this service of Abraham to be the fruit of his faith, By faith Abraham offered up Isaac, and he that ⟨p. 124⟩had the promises offered up his only Son, (Heb. 11. Jam. 2.) Ay, and without doubt, love unto God, in Abraham, was not wanting in this his service, nor was this grace of fear; nay, in the story where it is recorded. There it is chiefly accounted for the fruit of his godly fear, and that by an Angel from Heaven. And the Angel called out of Heaven, and said Abraham, Abraham. And he said, here am I. And he said, lay not thine hand upon the Lad, neither do thou any thing unto him, for now I know that thou fearest God seeing thou hast not withheld thy Son, thine only Son from me, Gen. 22.11, 12.