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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.
Sinner, it is on thing to say, I fear God, and another to fear him indeed. Therefore as James says, show me thy faith by thy works, so here God calls for a testimony of thy fear by the effects of fear. I have already showed you several effects of fear, if thou art a stranger to them, thou art a stranger to this grace of fear. Therefore, to conclude this, It is not a feigned profession that will do; nothing is good here, but what is salted with this fear of God, and they that fear him are men of truth, men of singleness of heart, perfect, upright, humble, holy men; wherefore reader examine, and again I say examine, and lay the word and thy heart ⟨p. 174⟩together before that thou concludest that thou fearest God.
Sinner, it is on thing to say, I fear God, and another to fear him indeed. Therefore as James saies, shew me thy faith by thy works, so here God calls for a testimony of thy fear by the effects of fear. I have already shewed you several effects of fear, if thou art a stranger to them, thou art a stranger to this grace of fear. Therefore, to conclude this, It is not a feigned profession that will do; nothing is good here, but what is salted with this fear of God, and they that fear him are men of truth, men of fingleness of heart, perfect, upright, humble, holy men; wherefore reader examine, and again I say examine, and lay the word and thy heart ⟨p. 174⟩together before that thou concludest that thou fearest God.
What! fear God, and in a state of nature? fear God without a change of heart and life? what! fear God and be proud, and covetous, a wine bibber, and a riotous eater of flesh! how? fear God and a liar, and one that cries for mercies to spend them upon thy lusts; this would be strange.
What! fear God, and in a state of nature? fear God without a change of heart and life? what! fear God and be proud, and covetous, a wine bibber, and a riotous eater of flesh! how? fear God and a lyer, and one that cries for mercies to spend them upon thy lusts; this would be strange.