A30211:496
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.
1. No man brings this grace into the world ⟨p. 160⟩with him. Every one by nature is destitute of it, for naturally none fear God, there is NO fear of God, none of this grace of fear before their eyes, they do not so much as know what it is, for this fear flows, as was showed before, from a new heart, faith, repentance, and the like, of which new heart faith and Repentance, if thou beest void, thou art also void of this godly fear. Men must have a mighty change of heart and life, or else they are strangers to this fear of God, alas how ignorant are the most of this? yea, and some are not afraid to say they are not changed nor desire so to be: can these fear God? can these be possessed with this grace of fear? No, Because they have no changes therefore they fear not God, Psal. 36.1. Rom. 3.18. Psal. 55.19.
1. No man brings this grace into the world ⟨p. 160⟩with him. Every one by nature is destitute of it, for naturally none fear God, there is NO fear of God, none of this grace of fear before their eyes, they do not so much as know what it is, for this fear flows, as was shewed before, from a new heart, faith, repentance, and the like, of which new heart faith and Repentance, if thou beest void, thou art also void of this godly fear. Men must have a mighty change of heart and life, or else they are strangers to this fear of God, alas how ignorant are the most of this? yea, and some are not afraid to say they are not changed nor desire so to be: can these fear God? can these be possessed with this grace of fear? No, Because they have no changes therefore they fear not God, Psal. 36.1. Rom. 3.18. Psal. 55.19.