A30211:461
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.
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.
3. Those in whom we delight, we take pleasure in their actions: yea, we teach them, and give them such rules, and laws to walk by, as may yet make them that we love more pleasurable in our eyes. Therefore they that fear God, since they are the object of his pleasure, are taught to know how to please him in every thing, 1 Thes. 4.1.
And hence it is said, that he is ravished with their looks, that he delighteth in their cry, and that he is pleased with their walking, Solomons Song, Ch. 4 9. Prov. 15.8. Ch. 11. v. 20.