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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.
So Peter bids that we Add to our faith, virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience, to patience, godliness; to Godliness, brotherly-kindness; ⟨p. 131⟩and to brotherly kindness charity: Adding, For if these things be in you and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren, nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ—Wherefore the rather Brethren give diligence to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things ye shall never fall. For so an entrance s•all be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 2 Pet. 1.5, 6, 7, 8, 9 10, 11.
So Peter bids that we Add to our faith, vertue; and to vertue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience, to patience, godliness; to Godliness, brotherly-kindness; ⟨p. 131⟩and to brotherly kindness charity: Adding, For if these things be in you and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren, nor unfruitful in the knowledg of our Lord Jesus Christ—Wherefore the rather Brethren give deligence to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things ye shall never fall. For so an entrance s•all be ministred unto you abundantly into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 2 Pet. 1.5, 6, 7, 8, 9 10, 11.
The sum of all which, is, that which was mentioned before, to wit, to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling. For none of these things can be conscientiously done but by and with the help of this blessed grace of fear.