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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.
Are great Saints, only, to have the Kingdom, and the glory everlasting? Are great works, only, to be rewarded? works that are done by virtue of great grace, and the abundance of the gifts of the holy Ghost? No: Whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones, a cup of cold water, only in the name of a Disciple, Verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose a Disciples reward. Mark, here is but a little gift, a Cup of cold water, and that given to a little Saint: but both taken special notice of by our Lord Jesus Christ, Matth. 10.42.
Are great Saints, only, to have the Kingdom, and the glory everlasting? Are great works, only, to be rewarded? works that are done by vertue of great grace, and the abundance of the gifts of the holy Ghost? No: Whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones, a cup of cold water, only in the name of a Disciple, Verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose a Disciples reward. Mark, here is but a little gift, a Cup of cold water, and that given to a little Saint: but both taken special notice of by our Lord Jesus Christ, Matth. 10.42.
He will give reward to his Servants the Prophets, and to his Saints, and to them that fear his name small and great, Revel. 11.18.
The Small therefore among them that fear God, are blessed with the great, as the great, with the same salvation, the same glory, and the same eternal life: and they shall have, even as the great ones also shall, as much as they can carry, as much as their hearts, souls, bodies, and capacities can hold.