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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
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This therefore should teach us to conclude, that next to God's Nature, and Name, his Service, his instituted Worship, is the most dreadful thing under Heaven. His ⟨p. 20⟩Name is upon his Ordinances, his eye is upon the Worshippers, and his wrath and judgment upon those that worship not in his fear. For this cause some of those at Corinth were by God himself cut off (1 Cor. 11.27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32.) and to others he has given the back, and will again be with them no more.
This also rebuketh three sorts of people.
1. Such as regard not to worship God at all; be sure they have no reverence of his Service, nor fear of his Majesty before their eyes. Sinner, thou dost not come before the Lord to worship him; thou dost not bow before the High God; thou neither worshipest him in thy closet, nor in the Congregation of Saints. The fury of the Lord and his indignation must in short time be poured out upon thee, and upon the families that call not upon his Name, Psal. 79.6. Jer. 10.25.