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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.
1. For that it is the worship of GOD: all manner of service carries more or less dread and fear along with it, according as the quality or condition of the person is, to whom the worship and service is done. This is seen in the service of subjects to their Princes, the service of servants to their Lords, and the service of children to their Parents. Divine Worship then being due to God (for it is now of Divine Worship we speak) and this God so great and dreadful in himself and Name, his Worship must therefore be a fearful thing.
1. For that it is the worship of GOD: all manner of service carries more or less dread and fear along with it, according as the quality or condition of the person is, to whom the worship and service is done. This is seen in the service of subjects to their Princes, the service of servants to their Lords, and the service of chlldren to their Parents. Divine Worship then being due to God (for it is now of Divine Worship we speak) and this God so great and dreadful in himself and Name, his Worship must therefore be a fearful thing.
2. Besides, this glorious Majesty is himself ⟨p. 18⟩present to behold his Worshippers in their worshipping him. When two or three of you are gathered together in my Name, I am there. (That is, gathered together to worship him) I am there, says he. And so again, he is said to walk in the midst of the seven golden Candlesticks, Rev. 1. that is, in the Churches, and that with a countenance like the Sun, with a head and hair as white as Snow; and with eyes like a flame of fire. This puts dread and fear into his service; and therefore his servants should serve him with fear.
2. Besides, this glorious Majesty is himself ⟨p. 18⟩present to behold his Worshippers in their woshiping him. When two or three of you are gathered together in my Name, I am there. (That is, gathered together to worship him) I am there, saies he. And so again, he is said to walk in the midst of the seven golden Candlesticks,