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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.
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, Prov. 1.26, 27, 28, 29.
3. He that fears not God now, the Lord shall laugh at his fears then. Sinner, God will be even with all them that chuse 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 disolation, and your distruction 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 chuse the FEAR of the Lord, Prov. 1.26, 27, 28, 29.
Sinner! thou thinkest to escape the fear: but what wilt thou do with the pit? Thou thinkest to escape the pit; but what wilt thou do with the Snare. The Snare, say you, what is that I answer it is even the work of thine own hands. The wicked is snared in the works of his own hands, he is snared by the words of his lips Psal. 9.16. Chap. 12.13.
Sinner! thou thinkest to escape the fear: but what wilt thou do with the pitt? Thou thinkest to escape the pit; but what wilt thou do with the Snare. The Snare, say you, what is that I answer it is even the work of thine own hands. The wicked is snared in the works of his own hands, he is snared by the words of his lips