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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.
This is a common thing among the Children of men, even to rejoice at the hurt of them that fear God, and it ariseth even of an inward hatred to Godliness. They hate you, says Christ, because they hated me. Therefore Christ takes what is done to his, in this, as done unto himself, and so to holiness of life.
This is a common thing among the Children of men, even to rejoyce at the hurt of them that fear God, and it ariseth even of an inward hatred to Godliness. They hate you, saies Christ, because they hated me. Therefore Christ takes what is done to his, in this, as done unto himself, and so to holiness of life.
But this falls hard upon such as despise at, and rejoice to see Gods people in their griefs, ⟨p. 173⟩and that take the advantage, as dogged Shimei did, to augment the griefs and afflictions of Gods people, 2 Sam. 16.5, 6, 7, 8.
But this falls hard upon such as despise at, and rejoyce to see Gods people in their griefs, ⟨p. 173⟩and that take the advantage, as dogged Shimei did, to augment the griefs and afflictions of Gods people, 2 Sam. 16.5, 6, 7, 8.
These fear not God, they do this of enmity, and their sin is such as will hardly be blotted out, 1 King. 2.8, 9