A30211:511
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.
7. They fear not God, who see his hand upon backsliders for their sins, and yet themselves will be backsliders also. I saw saith God, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery, I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce, yet her treacherous Sister Judah FEARED NOT, but went and played the harlot also, Jer. 3.8. Chap. 2. verse 19.
Judah saw that her Sister was put away, and delivered by God into the hand of Salmanezer who carried her away beyond Babylon, and yet, though she saw it, she went and played the harlot also. A sign of great hardness of heart, and of the want of the fear of God, indeed. For his fear, had it been in her heart, it would have taught her to have trembled at the judgment that was executed ⟨p. 168⟩upon her Sister, and not to have gone and played the harlot also: And not to have done it while her Sisters judgment was in sight and memory. But what is it, that an heart that is destitute of the fear of God will not do? No sin comes amiss to such: yea they will sin, they will do that themselves, for the doing of which they believe some are in Hell Fire, and all because they fear not God.
Judah saw that her Sister was put away, and delivered by God into the hand of Salmanezer who carried her away beyond Babylon, and yet, though she saw it, she went and plaied the harlot also. A signe of great hardness of heart, and of the want of the fear of God, indeed. For his fear, had it been in her heart, it would have taught her to have trembled at the judgment that was executed ⟨p. 168⟩upon her Sister, and not to have gone and played the harlot also: And not to have done it while her Sisters judgment was in sight and memory. But what is it, that an heart that is destitute of the fear of God will not do? No sin comes amiss to such: yea they will sin, they will do that themselves, for the doing of which they believe some are in Hell Fire, and all because they fear not God.