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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.
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.
Now to be taught of God what like it? yea what like to be taught in the way that thou shalt chuse? 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 asid, so many, and so subtil, 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 subtilty, 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 priviledge, 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.
Further, He doth not only say, that he will teach them the way, for that must of necessity be supplied, but he says also that he will teach such IN it; Him shall he teach IN the way that he shall choose. This argueth that, as thou shalt know, so the way shall be made by the communion that thou shalt have with God therein, sweet and pleasant to thee. For this text promiseth unto the man that feareth the Lord, the presence, company (and discovery of the mind) of God, while he is going in the way that he hath chosen. It is said of the good Scribe,