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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.
It is a custom with some men to keep back by fraud from the hireling, that which by covenant they agreed to pay for their labour, pinching, I say and paring from them their due that of right belongs to them, to the making of them cry in the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth (Jam. 5.4.) These fear not God; they are reckoned among the worst ⟨p. 172⟩of men, and in their day of account God himself will bear witness against them.
It is a custom with some men to keep back by fraud from the hireling, that which by covenant they agreed to pay for their labor, pinching, I say and pareing from them their due that of right belongs to them, to the making of them cry in the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth (Jam. 5.4.) These fear not God; they are reckoned among the worst ⟨p. 172⟩of men, and in their day of account God himself will bear witness against them.
And I, saith God, will come near to you to Judgment, and I will be a swift witness against false swearers, and against the adulterers, and against those that oppress the hireling of his wages, the Widow, and the Fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and FEAR not me saith the Lord.
And I, saith God, will come near to you to Judgment, and I will be a swift witness against false swearers, and against the adulterers, and against those that oppress the hireling of his wages, the Widdow, and the Fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and FEAR not me saith the Lord.