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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.
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, Job 13.3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24. Job 31.
This fear of God is it that keeps the conscience clean and tender, and so free from much of that defilement that even a good man may be afflicted with, for want of his growth in this fear of God.
Yea let me add, if a man can with a good conscience say that he desires to fear the name of God, it will ad boldness to his soul in his approaches into the presence of God. O Lord, said, Nehemiah, I beseech thee let thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy Servant, and Servants, who desire to fear thy name, Nehe. 1.11.