A30211:483
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.
Object. But the Scripture says, Perfect love casteth out fear, and therefore it seems that Saints after that a Spirit of Adoption is come, should not fear, but do their duty, as another Scripture saith, without it, 1 Joh. 4.18. Luk. 1.74, 75.
Object. But the Scripture saies, Perfect love casteth out fear, and therefore it seems that Saints after that a Spirit of Adoption is come, should not fear, but do their duty, as another Scripture saith, without it, 1 Joh. 4.18. Luk. 1.74, 75.
Answ. Fear, as I have showed you, may be taken several ways.
Answ. Fear, as I have shewed you, may be taken several waies.
1. It may be taken for the fear of Devils. 2. It may be taken for the fear of reprobates. 3. It may be taken for the fear that is wrought in the godly, by the Spirit as a Spirit of bondage, or, 4. It may be taken for the fear that I have been but now discoursing of.
1. It may be taken for the fear of Divels. 2. It may be taken for the fear of reprobates. 3. It may be taken for the fear that is wrought in the godly, by the Spirit as a Spirit of bondage, or, 4. It may be taken for the fear that I have been but now discoursing of.