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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.
The second use is an Exhortation to fear God.
My next word shall be, an Exhortation to fear God. I mean an Exhortation to Saints, O fear the Lord ye his Saints for there is no want to them that fear him.
Not but that every Saint doth fear God, but as the Apostle saith in an other case, I beseech you do it more and more. The fear of the Lord, as I have showed you, is a grace of the new covenant, as other saving graces are, and so is capable of being stronger or ⟨p. 181⟩weaker as other graces are. Wherefore I beseech you fear him more and more.
Not but that every Saint doth fear God, but as the Apostle saith in an other case, I beseech you do it more and more. The fear of the Lord, as I have shewed you, is a grace of the new covenant, as other saving graces are, and so is capeable of being stronger or ⟨p. 181⟩weaker as other graces are. Wherefore I beseech you fear him more and more.