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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.
First, Then, That man that feareth the Lord, has a grant and a licence to trust in the Lord: with an affirmation that he is their help, and their shield. Ye that fear the Lord, trust in the Lord, he is their Helper and Shield, Psal. 115.11. Now what a privilege is this! An exhortation in general to sinners as sinners to trust in him, is a privilege great and glorious, but for a man to be singled out from his Neighbours, for a man to be spoken to from Heaven, as it were by name, and to be told that God hath given him a licence a special and peculiar grant to trust in him, this is abundantly more, and yet this is the grant that God hath given that man. He hath I say a licence, to do it, a licence ⟨p. 135⟩indicted by the Holy Ghost, and left upon record for those to be born that shall fear the Lord to trust in him. And not only so, but as the text affirmeth, he is their Help and their Shield. Their help under all their weaknesses and infirmities, and a Shield to defend them against all the assaults of the Devil, and this World. So then, the man that feareth the Lord is licensed to make the Lord his stay and God of his Salvation, the succour and deliverer of his soul. He will defend him because his fear is in his heart. O ye Servants of the Lord, ye that fear him, live in the comfort of this, boldly make use of it when you are in straits, and put your trust under the shadow of his wings, for indeed he would have you do so, because you do fear the Lord.
First, Then, That man that feareth the Lord, has a grant and a licence to trust in the Lord: with an affirmation that he is their help, and their shield. Ye that fear the Lord, trust in the Lord, he is their Helper and Shield, Psal. 115.11. Now what a priviledg is this! An exhortation in general to sinners as sinners to trust in him, is a priviledge great and glorious, but for a man to be singled out from his Neighbours, for a man to be spoken to from Heaven, as it were by name, and to be told that God hath given him a licence a special and peculiar grant to trust in him, this is abundantly more, and yet this is the grant that God hath given that man. He hath I say a licence, to do it, a licence ⟨p. 135⟩