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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.
3. The riotous eaters of flesh have not the fear of God. For this is done without fear, Jud. 12. Gluttony is a sin little taken notice of, and as little repented of by those that use it, but yet it is odious in the sight of God, and the practise of it a demonstration of the want of his fear in the heart: yea, so odious is it that God forbids that his people should so much as company with such. Be not saith he, among wine bibbers, among rioters eaters of flesh, Prov. 23.20. And he further tells us, that they that are such, are spots, and blemishes to those that keep them company, for indeed they fear not God. 2 Pet. 2.13. Rom. 13.13. 1 Pet. 4.4.
3. The riotous eaters of flesh have not the fear of God. For this is done without fear, Jud. 12. Gluttony is a sin little taken notice of, and as little repented of by those that use it, but yet it is odious in the sight of God, and the practise of it a demonstration of the want of his fear in the heart: yea, so odious is it that God forbids that his people should so much as company with such. Be not saith he, among wine bibers, among rioters eaters of flesh, Prov. 23.20. And he further tels us, that they that are such, are spots, and blemishes to those that keep them company, for indeed they fear not God. 2 Pet. 2.13. Rom. 13.13. 1 Pet. 4.4.
Alas! some men, are as if they were for nought else born, but to eat, and to drink