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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.
Secondly, God hath also proclaimed concerning the man that feareth the Lord, That he will also be his teacher, and guide in the way that he shall choose, and hath moreover promised concerning such, that their soul shall dwell at ease.
Secondly, God hath also proclaimed concerning the man that feareth the Lord, That he will also be his teacher, and guide in the way that he shall chuse, and hath moreover promised concerning such, that their soul shall dwell at ease.
What man is he that feareth the Lord, says David, him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose, Psal. 25.21.
What man is he that feareth the Lord, saies David, him shall he teach in the way that he shall chuse, Psal. 25.21.
Now to be taught of God what like it? yea what like to be taught in the way that thou shalt choose? Thou hast chosen the way ⟨p. 136⟩to life, Gods way, but perhaps they ignorance about it is so great, and those that tempt thee to turn aside, so many, and so subtle, that they seem to out wit thee, and confound thee with their guile. Well, but the Lord whom thou fearest will not leave thee to thy ignorance, nor yet to thine enemies power or subtlety, but will take it upon him himself to be thy teacher and thy guide, and that in the way that thou hast chosen. Hear then and behold thy privilege, O thou that fearest the Lord, and who ever wanders turns aside, and swerveth from the way of Salvation: who ever is benighted, and lost in the midst of darkness, thou shalt find the way to the Heaven and the glory that thou hast chosen.