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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.
12. Another Motive to fear, and grow in this fear of God is, This is the way to engage God to deliver thee from many outward dangers, whoever falls therein, Psal. 34.7.
12. Another Motive to fear, and grow in this fear of God is, This is the way to engage God to deliver thee from many outward dangers, whoever fals therin, Psal. 34.7.
This is proved from that of the story of the Hebrew Midwives. The Midwives says Moses, feared God, and did not drown the Men-Children as the King had commanded, but saved them alive. And what follows, Therefore God dealt well with the Midwives; and it came to pass that because the Midwives feared God, that he made them houses, Exod. 1. That is he sheltered them and caused them to be hid from the rage and fury of the King, and that perhaps in some of the Houses of the Egyptians themselves, for why might not the Midwives be there hid ⟨p. 196⟩as well as was Moses even in the Kings Court?
This is proved from that of the story of the Hebrew Midwives. The Midwives saies Moses, feared God, and did not drown the Men-Children as the King had commanded, but saved them alive. And what follows, Therefore God dealt well with the Midwives; and it came to pass that because the Midwives feared God, that he made them houses, Exod. 1. That is he sheltered them and caused them to be hid from the rage and fury of the King, and that perhaps in some of the Houses of the Egyptians themselves, for why might not the Midwives be there hid ⟨p. 196⟩