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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.
Twelfthly, Dost thou fear God? The least dram of that fear giveth the privilege to be blessed with the biggest Saint. He will bless them that fear the Lord SMALL & GREAT, Psal. 115.13.
Twelfthly, Dost thou fear God? The least dram of that fear giveth the priviledg to be blessed with the biggest Saint. He will bless them that fear the Lord SMALL & GREAT, Psal. 115.13.
This word SMALL may be taken three ways.
This word SMALL may be taken three waies.
1. For those that are small in esteem, for those that are but little accounted of (Judg. ⟨p. 153⟩6.15. 1 Sam. 18.23.) Art thou small or little in this sense, yet if thou fearest God, thou art sure to be blessed. He shall bless them that fear him, small and great, be thou never so small in the worlds eyes, in thine own eyes, in the Saints eyes (as sometimes one Saint is little in another Saints eye;) yet thou, because thou fearest God, art put among the blessed.
1. For those that are small in esteem, for those that are but little accounted of (