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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.
Fifthly, Dost thou fear God? fear him for this advantage more and more. O fear the Lord, ye his Saints for there is no want to them that fear him. The young Lions do want and and suffer hunger, but they that seek the Lord (that fear him) shall want no good thing, Psal. 34.9, 10. Not any thing that God sees good for them, shall those men want that fear the Lord. If health will do them good. If sickness will do them good. If riches will do them good. If poverty will do them good. If life will do them good. If death will do them good, then they shall not want them, neither shall any of these come nigh them, if they will not do them good.
The Lions, the wicked people of the world that fear not God, are not made sharers in this great privilege, all things fall out to ⟨p. 141⟩them contrary, because they fear not God. In the midst of their sufficiency they are in want of that good, that God puts into the worst things that the man that feareth God, doth meet with in the world.
The Lions, the wicked people of the world that fear not God, are not made sharers in this great priviledge, all things fall out to ⟨p. 141⟩them contrary, because they fear not God. In the midst of their sufficiency they are in want of that good, that God puts into the worst things that the man that feareth God, doth meet with in the world.
Sixthly, Dost thou fear God? He hath given charge to the armies of Heaven to look after, take charge of, to camp about, and to deliver thee. The Angel of the Lord encampeth about them that fear him, and delivereth them.