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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.
Men when bodily awake, may have dreams, that is, visions from Heaven; such are all they that have a tendency to discover to the sinner his state, or the state of the Church according to the word.
But those that are from Satan, business, and the flesh are such, (especially the first and last to wit, from Satan and the flesh) as tend to embolden men to hope for good in a way disagreeing with the word of God. These Jude calls filthy dreams such whose principles were ⟨p. 171⟩their dreams, and they led them to defile the flesh, that is, by fornication and uncleanness, To despise dominion, that the reins might be laid upon the neck of their lusts, To speak evil of dignities, of those that God had set over them, for their governing in all the Law and Testament of Christ, these dreamt that to live like brutes, to be greedy of gain, and to take away for it, as Cain and Balaam, did by their wiles, the lives of the owners thereof, would go for good Coin in the best of trials. These also Peter speaks of in 2 Epist. 2 Chap And he makes their dreams that Jude calls so their principle and errors in life and doctrine; you may read of them in that whole Chapter where they are called cursed Children, and so by consequence such as fear not God.
But those that are from Satan, business, and the flesh are such, (especially the first and last to wit, from Satan and the flesh) as tend to imbolden men to hope for good in a way disagreeing with the word of God. These Jude calls filthy dreams such whose principles were ⟨p. 171⟩their dreams, and they led them to defile the flesh, that is, by fornication and uncleanness, To despise dominion, that the reins might be laid upon the neck of their lusts, To speak evil of dignities, of those that God had set over them, for their governing in all the Law and Testament of Christ, these dreamt that to live like brutes, to be greedy of gain, and to take away for it, as Cain and Balaam, did by their wiles, the lives of the owners thereof, would go for good Coin in the best of tryals. These also Peter speaks of in 2 Epist. 2 Chap And he makes their dreams that Jude calls so their principle and errors in life and doctrine; you may read of them in that whole Chapter where they are called cursed Children, and so by consequence such as fear not God.