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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.
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.
4. Another motive may be this, To grow in this grace of the fear of God, is the way to be kept always in a conscientious performance of Christian duties.
4. Another motive may be this, To grow in this grace of the fear of God, is the way to be kept alwaies in a conscientious performance of Christian duties.
An increase in this grace I say, keeps every grace in exercise, and the keeping of our graces in their due exercise, produceth a conscientious performance of duties. Thou hast a Watch perhaps in thy pocket, but the hand will not as yet be kept in any good order, but does always give thee the lie, as to the hour of the day; well, but what is the way