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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.
5. They fear not God who cry unto him for help in the time of their calamity, and when they are delivered, they return to there former rebellion. This Moses in a spirit of Prophecy asserteth at the time of the mighty judgment of the Hail. Pharaoh then desired him to pray to God that he would take away that judgment from him. Well, so I will, says Moses. But as for thee, and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear the Lord God, Exod. 9.30. As who should say, I know that so soon as this judgment is removed, you will to your old rebellion again. And what greater demonstration can be given that such a man feareth not God, then to cry to God to be delivered from affliction to prosperity, and to spend that prosperity in rebellion against him? This is crying for mercies that they may be spent, or that we may have something to spend upon our lusts, and in the service of Satan. Jam. 4.1, 2, 3.
5. They fear not God who cry unto him for help in the time of their calamity, and when they are delivered, they return to ther former rebellion. This Moses in a spirit of Prophecy asserteth at the time of the mighty judgment of the Hail. Pharoah then desired him to pray to God that he would take away that judgment from him. Well, so I will, saies Moses. But as for thee, and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear the Lord God, Exod. 9.30. As who should say, I know that so soon as this judgment is removed, you will to your old rebellion again. And what greater demonstration can be given that such a man feareth not God, then to cry to God to be delivered from affliction to prosperity, and to spend that prosperity in rebellion against him? This is crying for mercies that they may be spent, or that we may have something to spend upon our lusts, and in the service of Satan. Jam. 4.1, 2, 3.