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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.
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, Jer. 5.22, 23, 24.
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 overpowring 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, Jer. 5.22, 23, 24.
They saw that the Judgments of God attended them because they did not yet fear God, but that conviction would not prevail with them to say, let us now fear the Lord. ⟨p. 177⟩They were for deferring to fear him still; they were for putting off his fear from them longer. Sinner, hast thou deferred to fear the Lord? is thy heart still so stubborn as not to say yet, let us fear the Lord? Oh the Lord hath taken notice of this thy rebellion, and is preparing some dreadful Judgment for thee. Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord, shall not my soul be avenged of such a Nation as this? ver. 29.
They saw that the Judgments of God attended them because they did not yet fear God, but that conviction would not prevail with them to say, let us now fear the Lord. ⟨p. 177⟩