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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.
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.
The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every Beast of the earth, yea and upon every Fowl of the air, and upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the Fishes in the Sea, Gen. 9.2.
Mark, All my creatures shall fear you, and dread you, says God. None of them shall be so hardy as to cast off all reverence of you.
Mark, All my creatures shall fear you, and dread you, saies God. None of them shall be so hardy as to cast off all reverence of you.
But what a shame is this to man, That God should subject all his creatures to him, and he should refuse to stoop his heart to God? The Beast, the Bird, the Fish, and all, have a fear and dread of man, yea God has put it in their hearts to fear a man, and yet man is void of fear and dread, I mean of godly fear of him, that thus lovingly hath put all things under him.