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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.
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.
But pray observe, if those that take not warning when they see the hand of God upon backsliders, are said to have none of the fear of God, have they it, think you, that lay stumbling blocks in the way of Gods people, and use devices to cause them to backslide, yea rejoice when they can do this mischief to any? And yet many of this sort there are in the world, that even rejoice when they see a professor fall into sin and go back from his profession, as if they had found some excellent thing.