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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.
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, 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.
3. Above all things, God is jealous of his worship and service. In all the ten words, he telleth us not any thing of his being a jealous God, but in the second which respecteth his worship, Exod. 20. Look to your selves therefore, both as to the matter and manner of your worship; For I the Lord your God, says he, am a jealous God, visiting the sins of the Fathers upon the Children. This therefore doth also put dread and fear into the worship and service of God.