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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.
But there ye is more behind, The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting, to everlasting on them. Twas designed for them before the world was, and shall be upon them when the world it self is ended: From everlasting, to everlasting it is on them that fear him. This from everlasting to everlasting, is that by which, in another place, the eternity of God himself is declared. From everlasting to everlasting thou art God, Psal. 90.2. The meaning ⟨p. 146⟩then may be this. That so long as God hath his being, so long shall the man that feareth him find mercy at his hand. According to that of Moses. The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting Arms, and he shall thrust out the Enemy before thee, and say destroy them, Deut. 33.27
But there yee is more behinde, The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting, to everlasting on them. Twas designed for them before the world was, and shall be upon them when the world it self is ended: From everlasting, to everlasting it is on them that fear him. This from everlasting to everlasting, is that by which, in another place, the eternity of God himself is declared. From everlasting to everlasting thou art God, Psal. 90.2. The meaning ⟨p. 146⟩then may be this. That so long as God hath his being, so long shall the man that feareth him find mercy at his hand. According to that of Moses. The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting Arms, and he shall thrust out the Enemy before thee, and say destroy them, Deut. 33.27
Child of God, thou that fearest God, here is mercy nigh thee, mercy enough, everlasting mercy upon thee. This is long-lived mercy. It will live longer then thy sin, it will live longer then temptation, it will live longer then thy sorrows, it will live longer then thy persecutors. It is mercy from everlasting to contrive thy salvation, and mercy TO everlasting, to weather it out with all thy adversaries. Now what can hell and death do to him that hath this mercy of God upon him? And this hath the man that feareth the Lord.