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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.
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⟩They were for deferring to fear him still; they were for puting 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.
Sinner why shouldest thou pull vengeance down upon thee? why shouldest thou pull vengeance down from Heaven upon thee? Look up, perhaps thou hast already been pulling this great while, to pull it down upon thee. Oh, pull no longer; why shouldest thou be thine own Executioner? Fall down upon thy knees man, and up with thy heart and thy hands to the God that dwells in the Heavens; cry, yea cry aloud, Lord unite mine heart to fear thy name, and do not harden mine heart from thy fear. Thus holy men have cried before thee, and by crying have prevented Judgment.
Sinner why shouldest thou pull vengeance down upon thee? why shouldest thou pull vengeance down from Heaven upon thee? Look up, perhaps thou hast already been pulling this great while, to pull it down upon thee. Oh, pull no longer; why shouldest thou be thine own Executioner? Fall down upon thy knees man, and up with thy heart and thy hands to the God that dwels in the Heavens; cry, yea cry aloud, Lord unite mine heart to fear thy name, and do not harden mine heart from thy fear. Thus holy men have cryed before thee, and by crying have prevented Judgment.