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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.
Alas! some men, are as if they were for nought else born, but to eat, and to drink ⟨p. 164⟩and pamper their carcasses with the dainties of this world, quite forgetting why God sent them hither: but such, as is said, fear not God, and so consequently, are of the number of them upon whom the day of Judgment will come at unawares, Luk. 21.34.
Alas! some men, are as if they were for nought else born, but to eat, and to drink ⟨p. 164⟩and pamper their carcasses with the dainties of this world, quite forgeting why God sent them hither: but such, as is said, fear not God, and so consequently, are of the number of them upon whom the day of Judgment will come at unawars, Luk. 21.34.
4. The liar is one that fears not God. This also is evident from the plain Text, Thou hast lied (saith the Lord) and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart, have not I held my peace even of old, saith the Lord, and thou fearest me not? Isa. 57.11. What lie this was, is not material, 'twas a lie, or a course of lying, that is here rebuked, and the person, or persons, in this practice, as is said, were such as feared not God: a course of lying, and the fear of God cannot stand together.
4. The lyer is one that fears not God. This also is evident from the plain Text, Thou hast lied (saith the Lord) and hast not remembred me, nor laid it to thy heart, have not I held my peace even of old, saith the Lord, and thou fearest me not? Isa. 57.11