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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.
Therefore still, notwithstanding this fear, they were rebels to him in their hearts, and ⟨p. 176⟩when occasion and advantage offered themselves, they showed it by rising in rebellion against Israel.
Therefore still, notwithstanding this fear, they were rebels to him in their hearts, and ⟨p. 176⟩when occasion and advantage offered themselves, they shewed it by rising in rebellion against Israel.
This fear therefore provoked but feigned, and forced obedience, a right emblem of the obedience of such, who being still enemies in their minds to God, are forced by virtue of present conviction to yield a little, even of fear to God, to his word, and to his ordinances. Reader, whoever thou art, think of this, it is thy concern, therefore do it and examine, and examine again, and look diligently to thy heart in thine examination, that it beguile thee not about this thy so great concern, as indeed the fear of God is.
This fear therefore provoked but feigned, and forced obedience, a right emblem of the obedience of such, who being still enemies in their minds to God, are forced by vertue of present conviction to yield a little, even of fear to God, to his word, and to his ordinances. Reader, whoever thou art, think of this, it is thy concern, therefore do it and examine, and examine again, and look diligently to thy heart in thine examination, that it beguile thee not about this thy so great concern, as indeed the fear of God is.
One thing more, before I leave thee, let me warn thee of. Take heed of deferring to fear the Lord. Some men, when they have had conviction upon their heart that the fear of God is not in them, have through the overpowering of their corruptions, yet deferred and put off the fear of God from them, as it is said of them in Jeremiah. This people have a revolting and a rebellious heart, they are revolted and gone; neither said they in their heart let us now fear the Lord,