A30211:431
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.
This also is that hidden one, that is so full of grace to save sinners, and so full of truth and faithfulness to keep promise and covenant with them, that their eyes must needs convey, even by every glance they make upon his Person, Offices and Relation, such affecting ravishments to the heart, that it would please them that see him, even to be killed with that fight.
This secret of the Lord shall be; nay IS with them that fear him, for he dwelleth in their heart by faith. And he will show them his Covenant. That is, the Covenant that is confirmed of God in Christ, that everlasting and eternal covenant, and show him too, that he himself is wrapped up therein as in a bundle of life with the Lord his God. These are the thoughts, purposes and promises of God to them that fear him.
This secret of the Lord shall be; nay IS with them that fear him, for he dwelleth in their heart by faith. And he will shew them his Covenant. That is, the Covenant that is confirmed of God in Christ, that everlasting and eternal covenant, and shew him too, that he himself is wrapped up therein as in a bundle of life with the Lord his God. These are the thoughts, purposes and promises of God to them that fear him.
Fourthly, Dost thou fear the Lord? His eye is always over thee for good, to keep thee from all evil. Behold the eyes of the Lord is ⟨p. 139⟩upon them that fear him, on them that hope in his mercy, to deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine, Psal. 33.18, 19.
Fourthly, Dost thou fear the Lord? His eye is alwaies over thee for good, to keep thee from all evil. Behold the eyes of the Lord is