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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 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.
Before I leave this use let me give thee a few things, that if God will, may provoke thee to fear the Lod.
1. The man that feareth not God, carrieth it worse toward him, then the beast, the brute beast, doth carry it towards that man.
1. The man that feareth not God, carrieth it worse toward him, then the beast, the bruit beast, doth carry it towards that man.