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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.
3. He is thy Father, is it not seemly for Children to reverence and fear their Father? yea and to do it more and more?
7. Another motive may be, It is honourable to grow in this grace of fear: when Ephraim spake trembling he exalted himself in Israel, Hos. 13.1.
Truly to fear, and to abound in this fear, is a sign of a very princely spirit: and the reason is, when I greatly fear my God, I am above the fear of all others, nor can any thing in this world, be it never so terrible and dreadful, move me at all to fear them. And hence it is that Christ counsels us to fear. And I say unto you my friends, said he, fear not them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. (I but this is an high pitch, ⟨p. 187⟩how should we come by such princely spirits) well, I will forewarn you whom you shall fear and by fearing of him, arrive to this pitch, Fear him who after he hath killed, hath power to cast into Hell; yea, I say unto you fear him, Luke 12.4, 5.
Truly to fear, and to abound in this fear, is a signe of a very princely spirit: and the reason is, when I greatly fear my God, I am above the fear of all others, nor can any thing in this world, be it never so terrible and dreadful, move me at all to fear them. And hence it is that Christ counsels us to fear. And I say unto you my friends, said he, fear not them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. (I but this is an high pitch, ⟨p. 187⟩