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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
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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.
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, saies he, am a jealous God, visiting the sins of the Fathers upon the Children. This therefore doth also put dread and fear into the woship and service of God.
4. The Judgments that sometimes God hath executed upon men for their want of godly fear, while they have been in his worship and service, put fear and dread upon his holy appointments.
1. Nadab and Abihu was burned to ⟨p. 19⟩death with fire from Heaven, because they attempted to offer false fire upon God's Altar (Levit. 10.1, 2, 3.) And the reason rendered why they were so served, was, because God will be sanctified in them that come nigh him. To sanctify his Name, is to let him be thy dread and thy fear, and to do nothing in his worship but what is well-pleasing to him. But because these men had not grace to do this, therefore they died before the Lord.