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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.
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.
It is also said of Hananiah, That he was a faithful man, and feared God above many, Nehe. 7.2. He also had got, as to the exercise of, and growth in this grace, the start of many of his Brethren. He feared God above many. Now then, seeing this grace admits of degrees, and is in some stronger, and in some weaker: let us be all awakened, as to other graces, so to this grace also. That like as you abound ⟨p. 182⟩in every thing, in faith, in utterance, in knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us: See that ye abound in this grace also.
It is also said of Hananiah, That he was a faithful man, and feared God above many, Nehe. 7.2. He also had got, as to the exercise of, and growth in this grace, the start of many of his Brethren. He feared God above many. Now then, seeing this grace admits of degrees, and is in some stronger, and in some weaker: let us be all awakned, as to other graces, so to this grace also. That like as you abound ⟨p. 182⟩in every thing, in faith, in utterance, in knowledg, and in all diligence, and in your love to us: See that ye abound in this grace also.