A30211:509
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.
6. They fear not God, that way-lay his people and seek to overthrow them, or to turn them besides the right path, as they are journeying from hence to their eternal rest. This is evident from the plain Text. I Remember saith God what Amalek did unto thee by the way when ye were come forth out of Egypt, how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint, and weary, and he feared not God, Deut. 25.17, 18.
6. They fear not God, that way-lay his people and seek to overthrow them, or to turn them besides the right path, as they are journying from hence to their eternal rest. This is evident from the plain Text. I Remember saith God what Amalek did unto thee by the way when ye were come forth out of Aegypt, how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint, and weary, and he feared not God, Deut. 25.17, 18.
Many such Amalekites there be now in the world that have set themselves against the feeble of the flock, against the feeble of the ⟨p. 167⟩flock especially, still smiting them, some by power, some with the tongue, some in their lives and estates, some in their names and reputations, by scandal, slanders and reproach but the reason of this their ungodly practise is this, They fear not God. For did they fear HIM, they would be afraid to so much as think, much more of attempting to afflict and destroy, and calumniate the Children of God: but such there have been, such there are, and such there will be in the world, for all men fear not God.