A30211:566
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.
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.
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 apostacy. [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 commited notwithstanding.
There is a child that is healthy, and hath its limbs and can go, but 'tis careless; now the evil of carelessness doth disadvantage it very much, carelessness is the cause of stumblings, of falls, of knocks, and that it falls into the dirt, yea that sometimes 'tis burned, or almost drowned. And thus it is even with Gods people that fear him, because they ad not to their fear, a care of growing more in the fear of God, therefore they reap damage; whereas, were they more in his fear, it would keep them better, deliver them more, and preserve them from these snares of death.
There is a child that is healthy, and hath its limbs and can go, but 'tis careless; now the evil of carelessness doth disadvantage it very much, carelessness is the cause of stumblings, of falls, of knocks, and that it falls into the dirt, yea that somtimes 'tis burned, or almost drowned. And thus it is even with Gods people that fear him, because they ad not to their fear, a care of growing more in the fear of God, therefore they reap dammage; whereas, were they more in his fear, it would keep them better, deliver them more, and preserve them from these snares of death.