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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.
Eleventhly, Dost thou fear God? The Lord takes pleasure in them that fear him, Psal. 147.11.12. They that fear God, are among his chief delights. He delights in his Son, he delights in his works, and takes pleasure in them that fear him. As a man takes pleasure in his Wife, in his Children, in his Gold, in his Jewels; So the man that fears the Lord, is the object of his delight. He takes pleasure in their prosperity, (Psal. 35.27.) and therefore sendeth them health from the Sanctuary, and makes them drink of the River of his pleasures. They shall be abundantly satisfied with the Fatness of thy House, and thou shalt make them drink of the River of thy pleasures, Psal. 36.8.
2. That, or those that we take pleasure in; that or those we love to beautify, and adorn with many ornaments. We count no cost too much to be bestowed on those in whom we place our delight, and whom we make the object of our pleasure. And even thus it is with God. For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people, and what follows? he will beautify the meek with Salvation, Psal. 149.4.
2. That, or those that we take pleasure in; that or those we love to beautifie, and adorn with many ornaments. We count no cost too much to be bestowed on those in whom we place our delight, and whom we make the object of our pleasure. And even thus it is with God. For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people, and what follows? he will beautify the meek with Salvation, Psal. 149.4.