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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.
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. 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.
This sin of lying is a common sin, and it walketh in the world in several guises. There is the profane scoffing liar, there is the cunning artificial liar, there is the hypocritical religious liar, with liars of other ranks, and degrees. But none of them all have the fear of God, nor shall any of them, they not repenting, escape the damnation of Hell. All liars shall have their part in the lake that burns with Fire and Brimstone, Revel. 21.8. Heaven and the new Jerusalem are not a place for such. And there shall in no wise enter into it, any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever ⟨p. 165⟩worketh abomination, or maketh a lye, ver. 27. Therefore another Scripture says, That all liars are without. For without are dogs and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. Chap. 22.15. But this should not be their sentence, judgment, and condemnation, if they that are liars were such as had in them this blessed fear of God.