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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: Another motive to stir thee up to grow in this grace of the fear of God, May be the privileges that it lays thee under. What, or where wilt thou find in the Bible, so many privileges, so affectionately entailed to any grace, as to this of the fear of God? God speaks of this grace, and of the privileges that belong unto it, as if (to speak with reverence) he knew not how to have done blessing of the man that hath it.
2: Another motive to stir thee up to grow in this grace of the fear of God, May be the priviledges that it laies thee under. What, or where wilt thou find in the Bible, so many priviledges, so affectionately intailed to any grace, as to this of the fear of God? God speaks of this grace, and of the priviledges that belong unto it, as if (to speak with reverance) he knew not how to have done blessing of the man that hath it.
It seems to me, as if this grace of fear, is the darling grace, the grace that God sets his heart upon at the highest rate. As it were he embraces and hugs, and lays the man in his bosom, that hath, and grows strong in this grace of the fear of God.
It seems to me, as if this grace of fear, is the darling grace, the grace that God sets his heart upon at the highest rate. As it were he imbraces and hugs, and laies the man in his bosom, that hath, and grows strong in this grace of the fear of God.
See again the many privileges in which the man is interested, that hath this grace in his heart: and see also that there are but few of them, wherever mentioned, but have entailed to them the pronunciation of a blessing, or else that man is spoken of by way of Admiration.
See again the many priviledges in which the man is intrested, that hath this grace in his heart: and see also that there are but few of them, wherever mentioned, but have intailed to them the pronunciation of a blessing, or else that man is spoken of by way of Admiration.