A30211:421
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.
Of the privileges of them that thus do fear the Lord.
Of the priviledges of them that thus do fear the Lord.
Having thus briefly handled in particular, thus far this fear of God, I shall now show you certain of the excellent privileges of them that fear the Lord: not that they are not privileges that have been already mentioned; ⟨p. 134⟩for what greater privileges then to have this fear producing in the soul, such excellent things, so necessary for us for good both with reference to this world and that which is to come, but because those fourteen above named, do rather flow from this grace of fear where it is, then from a promise to the person that hath it: therefore I have chosen rather to discourse of them, as the fruits and effects of fear, then otherwise. Now besides all these there is entailed by promise to the man that hath this fear, many other blessed privileges the which I shall now in a brief way lay open unto you.
Having thus briefly handled in particular, thus far this fear of God, I shall now shew you certain of the excellent priviledges of them that fear the Lord: not that they are not priviledges that have been already mentioned; ⟨p. 134⟩for what greater priviledges then to have this fear producing in the soul, such excellent things, so necessary for us for good both with reference to this world and that which is to come, but because those fourteen above named, do rather flow from this grace of fear where it is, then from a promise to the person that hath it: therefore I have chosen rather to discourse of them, as the fruits and effects of fear, then otherwise. Now besides all these there is intailed by promise to the man that hath this fear, many other blessed priviledges the which I shall now in a brief way lay open unto you.