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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.
Here the fearing of God is opposed to our overmuch heeding dreams: and there is implied, that it is for want of the fear of God that men so much heed those things.
What will they say to this that give more heed to a suggestion that ariseth from their foolish hearts or that is cast in thither by the Devil, then they do to the holy word of God? These are filthy dreamers.
Also what shall we say to those that are more confident of the mercy of God to their soul, because he hath blessed them with outward things, than they are afraid of his wrath and condemnation, thought the whole of the word of God doth fully verify the same? These are filthy dreamers indeed.
A dream is either real, or so by way of semblance, and so some men dream sleeping, and some waking (Isa. 29.7.) And as those that a man dreams sleeping are caused, either by God, Satan, Business, Flesh, or the like, so are they that a man dreams waking, to pass by those that we have in our sleep.