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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.
2. Consider, He that will not fear God, God will make him fear him whether he will or no. That is, He that doth not, will not now so fear him, as willingly to bow before him, and put his neck into his yoke, God will make him fear him when he comes to take vengeance on him. Then he will surround him with terror, and with fear on every side, fear ⟨p. 179⟩within, and fear without, fear shall be in the way, even in the way that thou goest when thou art going out of this World: and that will be dreadful fear, Eccles. 12.5. I will bring their fears upon them saith the Lord. Isa. 66.4.
2. Consider, He that will not fear God, God will make him fear him whether he will or no. That is, He that doth not, will not now so fear him, as willingly to bow before him, and put his neck into his yoak, God will make him fear him when he comes to take vengeance on him. Then he will surround him with terror, and with fear on every side, fear ⟨p. 179⟩within, and fear without, fear shall be in the way, even in the way that thou goest when thou art going out of this World: and that will be dreadful fear, Eccles. 12.5. I will bring their fears upon them saith the Lord. Isa. 66.4.
3. He that fears not God now, the Lord shall laugh at his fears then. Sinner, God will be even with all them that choose not to have his fear in their hearts: For as he calls and they hear not now, so they shall cry, yea howl then, and he will laugh at their fears. I will laugh, saith he, at their destruction I will mock when their fear cometh, when your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish cometh upon you, then shall you call upon me, but I will not answer: you shall seek me early, but you shall not find me, for that you hated knowledge, and did not choose the FEAR of the Lord,