A30211:408
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.
To this way therefore the sinner With this godly fear submits his soul, rolls himself upon it, and so is delivered from that death into which others for want of this fear of God, do headlong fall.
To this way therefore the sinner With this godly fear submits his soul, rouls himself upon it, and so is delivered from that death into which others for want of this fear of God, do headlong fall.
It is, as I also hinted before, the nature of godly fear to be very much putting the soul upon the enquiry which is, and which is not the thing approved of God, and accordingly to embrace it, or shun it. Now I say, this ⟨p. 128⟩fear having put the soul upon a strict and serious enquiry after the way of Salvation, at lest it finds it to be by the mercy of God in Christ, therefore this fear putteth the soul upon hoping also in him for eternal life, and blessedness; by which hope he doth, not only secure soul, but become a person of Gods delight. The Lord takes pleasure in them that fear him, in them that hope in his mercy.
It is, as I also hinted before, the nature of godly fear to be very much putting the soul upon the enquiry which is, and which is not the thing approved of God, and accordingly to imbrace it, or shun it. Now I say, this ⟨p. 128⟩fear having put the soul upon a strict and serious enquiry after the way of Salvation, at lest it finds it to be by the mercy of God in Christ, therefore this fear putteth the soul upon hoping also in him for eternal life, and blessedness; by which hope he doth, not only secure soul, but become a porson of Gods delight. The Lord takes pleasure in them that fear him, in them that hope in his mercy.