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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 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.
3. Another motive may be this. The man that groweth in this grace of the fear of the Lord will escape those evils that others will fall into. Where this grace is, it keepeth the soul from final apostasy. [I will put my fear in their ⟨p. 184⟩heart, and they shall not depart from me, Jer. 32.40.] But yet, if there be not an increase in this grace, much evil may attend, and be committed notwithstanding.