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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.
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.
Take that other blessed word, and O thou man that fearest the Lord, hang it like a Chain of Gold about thy neck. As the Heaven is high above the Earth, so great is his mercy towards them that fear him, Psal. 103.13.18. If mercy as big, as high, and as good as Heaven it self will be a privilege, the man that feareth God shall have a privilege.
Take that other blessed word, and O thou man that fearest the Lord, hang it like a Chain of Gold about thy neck. As the Heaven is high above the Earth, so great is his mercy towards them that fear him, Psal. 103.13.18. If mercy as big, as high, and as good as Heaven it self will be a priviledge, the man that feareth God shall have a priviledge.
Ninthly, Dost thou fear God? Like as a ⟨p. 147⟩Father pitieth his Children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. Psal. 103.13.