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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.
He pleaded his desire of fearing the name of God, as an argument with God to grant him his request; and the reason was, because God had promised before to bless them that fear him, both small and great, Ps. 115.13.
11. Another motive to stir you up to fear the Lord, and to grow in this fear, is, by it thou mayest have thy labours blessed to the saving of the souls of others. 'Tis said of Levi (of whom mention was made before, that he feared God and was afraid before his Name) that he saved others from their sins. The law of truth was in his lips, and he walked with me in Peace and Equity, and did turn away many from iniquity, Mal. 25.6. The fear of God that dwelt in his heart, showed its growth in the Sanctifying of the Lord by his life and words, and the Lord also blessed this his growth herein, by blessing his labours to the saving of his Neighbours.
11. Another motive to stir you up to fear the Lord, and to grow in this fear, is, by it thou maiest have thy labours blessed to the saving of the souls of others. 'Tis said of Levi (of whom mention was made before, that he feared God and was afraid before his Name) that he saved others from their sins. The law of truth was in his lips, and he walked with me in Peace and Equity, and did turn away many from iniquity, Mal. 25.6. The fear of God that dwelt in his heart, shewed its growth in the Sanctifying of the Lord by his life and words, and the Lord also blessed this his growth herein, by blessing his labours to the saving of his Neighbors.
Wouldest thou save thy Husband, thy Wife, thy Children, &c. then be greatly in the fear of God. This Peter teaches, Wives, saith he, be subject to your own husbands, that if any obey not the word, they may without the word, be won by the conversation of the wives, while they behold your chaste conversation, coupled with fear,