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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.
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.
You know how pleasing in our eyes the actions of our Children are when we know that they do what they do, even of a reverent fear and awe of us; yea though that which they do amounts but to little, we take it well at their hands, and are pleased therewith. The woman that cast in her two mites into the Treasury, cast in not much, for they both did but make one farthing, Mark. 12.40, 41, 42, 43. Yet how doth the Lord Jesus trumpet her up, he had pleasure in her, and in her action. This therefore, that the Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him, is another of their great privileges.
You know how pleasing in our eyes the actions of our Children are when we know that they do what they do, even of a reverent fear and aw of us; yea though that which they do amounts but to little, we take it well at their hands, and are pleased therewith. The woman that cast in her two mites into the Treasury, cast in not much, for they both did but make one farthing,