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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.
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.
It is said of Obadiah, That he feared the Lord greatly: every Saint fears the Lord, but every Saint does not greatly fear him. O there are but few Obadiah's in the world. I mean among the Saints on earth: See the whole relation of him, 1 King. 18. As Paul said of Timothy, I have none likeminded, so it may be said of some concerning the fear of the Lord; They have scarce a fellow. So it was with Job, There is none like him in all the earth, one that feareth God, &c. Job 1. Chap. 2. There was even none in Jobs day that feared God like him, no, there was not one like him in all the earth, but doubtless there were more in the World that feared God; but this fearing of him greatly, that's the thing that Saints should do, and that was the thing that Job did do, and in that he did outstrip his fellows.