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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.
10. Another motive to stir thee up to grow in the increase of this grace of fear is, It is a grace, do but abound therein, that will give thee great boldness both with God and men. Job was a man, a none-such in his day, for one that feared God, and who so bold with God as Job? who so bold with God, and who so bold with men as he?
1. How bold was he with God, when he wishes for nothing more then that he might come even to his seat, and concludes that if ⟨p. 192⟩he could come at him, he would approach even as a prince unto him, and as such would order his cause before him, Job 23.3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Chap. 31.35, 36, 37.
Also before his friends, how bold was he? For ever as they laid to his charge that he was an hypocrite, he refels them with the testimony of a good conscience, which good conscience he got and kept, and maintained by increasing in the fear of God, yea his conscience was kept so good by this grace of fear, (for 'twas by that that he eschewed evil) that 'twas common with him to appeal to God when accused, and also to put himself for his clearing under most bitter curses and imprecations, Job 13.3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24. Job 31.
Also before his friends, how bold was he? For ever as they laid to his charge that he was an hypocrite, he refels them with the testimony of a good conscience, which good conscience he got and kept, and maintained by increasing in the fear of God, yea his conscience was kept so good by this grace of fear, (for 'twas by that that he eschewed evil) that 'twas common with him to appeall to God when accused, and also to put himself for his clearing under most bitter curses and imprecations,