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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.
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, Ezek. 33.31. Ephes. 5.4, 5. Psal. 10.3.
Hearken to this you that hunt the world to take it, you that care not how you get, so you get the world. Also you that make even religion ⟨p. 163⟩your stalking-horse to get the world. You fear not God. And what will you do, whose hearts go after your covetousness? you who are led by covetousness up and down, as it were by the Nose; sometimes to swear, to lie, to cozen, and cheat and defraud, when you can get the advantage to do it. You are far, very far from the fear of God. Ye adulterers, and adulteresses, for so the covetous are called, Know ye not that the friendship of this world is the enmity with God: whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world is the enemy of God. James 4. ver. 4.
Hearken to this you that hunt the world to take it, you that care not how you get, so you get the world. Also you that make even religion ⟨p. 163⟩your stalking-horse to get the world. You fear not God. And what will you do, whose hearts go after your covetousness? you who are led by covetousness up and down, as it were by the Nose; sometimes to swear, to lie, to couzen, and cheat and defraud, when you can get the advantage to do it. You are far, very far from the fear of God. Ye adulterers, and adulteresses, for so the covetous are called, Know ye not that the friendship of this world is the enmity with God: whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world is the enemy of God.