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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.
Rev. 14.7. Fear God.
THIS Exhortation is not only found here in the Text, but is in several other places of the Scripture pressed, and that with much vehemency, upon the children of men (as in Eccles. 12.13. 1 Pet. 1.17, &c.) I shall not trouble you with long preambles, or fore-speech to the matter, nor shall I here so much as meddle with the context, but shall immediately fall upon the words themselves, and briefly treat of the Fear of God.
The Text; you see, presenteth us with matter of greatest moment, to wit, with GOD, and with the FEAR of him.
First, They present us with God, the true and living God, Maker of the worlds, and upholder of all things by the word of his power; that incomprehensible Majesty, in ⟨p. 2⟩comparison of whom, all Nations are less than the drop of a bucket, and than the small dust of the balance. This is he that fills Heaven and Earth, and is every where present with the children of men, beholding the evil and the good; for he hath set his eyes upon all their ways.