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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.
4. Those in whom we delight, and take pleasure, many things we will bear and put up, that they do, though they be not according to our minds. A man will suffer that in, and put up that at the hand of the Child or Wife of his pleasure, that he will not pass by, nor put up in another.
They are my Jewels, says God, even them that fear me; and I will spare them (in all their ⟨p. 152⟩comings short of my will) even as a man spareth his own Son that serveth him, Matt. 3.16, 17.
They are my Jewels, saies God, even them that fear me; and I will spare them (in all their ⟨p. 152⟩comings short of my will) even as a man spareth his own Son that serveth him, Matt. 3.16, 17.
On how happy is the man that feareth God! His good thoughts, his good attempts to serve him, and his good life pleases him, because the feareth God.