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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.
Indeed this true fear of God, sets a man above all the world. And therefore, It saith again, fear not their fear, but sanctify the Lord God in your heart, and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread, Isa. 8.
Indeed this true fear of God, sets a man above all the world. And therofore, It saith again, fear not their fear, but sanctify the Lord God in your heart, and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread, Isa. 8.
Your great, ranting, swaggering Roisters that are ignorant of the nature of this fear of God, count it a poor sneaking, pitiful, cowardly spirit in Men to fear and tremble before the Lord, but whoso looks back to gaols, and gibbets, to the sword and burning stake, shall see, that there in them has been the most mighty and invincible spirit that has been in the world.
Your great, ranting, swaggering Roysters that are ignorant of the nature of this fear of God, count it a poor sneaking, pittiful, cowardly spirit in Men to fear and tremble before the Lord, but whoso looks back to gaols, and gibbits, to the sword and burning stake, shall see, that there in them has been the most mighty and invincible spirit that has been in the world.
Yea see if God doth not count that the growth of his people in this grace of fear, is that which makes them honourable, when he positively excludeth those from a dwelling place in his house, That do not honour them that fear him, Psal. 15.4. And he saith moreover, A woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. If the world and godless men will not honour these, they shall be honoured some way else. Such, saith he, that honour me