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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.
He therefore that is proud of his person, of his Riches, of his Office, of his Parts, and the like, feareth not God. It is also manifest further, for God resisteth the proud, which he would not do, if he feared him, but in that he sets him at such a distance from him, in that he testifies that he will abase him and resist him, it is evident that he is not the man that hath this grace of fear; for that man, as I have showed you, is the man of Gods delight, the object of his pleasure, Psal. 138.6. Jam. 4.6. 1 Pet. 5.5. Mal. 4.1.
He therefore that is proud of his person, of his Riches, of his Office, of his Parts, and the like, feareth not God. It is also manifest further, for God resisteth the proud, which he would not do, if he feared him, but in that he sets him at such a distance from him, in that he testifies that he will abase him and resist him, it is evident that he is not the man that hath this grace of fear; for that man, as I have shewed you, is the man of Gods delight, the object of his pleasure, Psal. 138.6. Jam. 4.6. 1 Pet. 5.5. Mal. 4.1.
2. The covetous man feareth not God. This also is plain from the word, because it setteth covetousness, and the fear of God in direct opposition. Men that fear God, are said to hate covetousness Exod. 18.21. Besides, the covetous man is called an Idolater, and is said to have no part in the Kingdom of Christ and of God. And again, The wicked boasteth himself of his hearts desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhoreth,