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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.
13. Another Motive to fear and to grow in this fear of God is, This is the way to be delivered from Errors, and damnable opinions. There are some that perish in their righteousness, that's an Error; there be some that perish in their wickedness, and that's an Error also. Some again prolong their lives by their wickedness, and others are righteous over much, and also some are over wise, and all these are snares, and pits, and holes. But then sayest thou, how shall I escape? Indeed that's the question, and the Holy Ghost resolves it thus, He that feareth God shall come out of them all, Eccles. 7.15, 16, 17, 18.
13. Another Motive to fear and to grow in this fear of God is, This is the way to be delivered from Errors, and damnable opinions. There are some that perish in their righteousness, thats an Error; there be some that perish in their wickedness, and thats an Error also. Some again prolong their lives by their wickedness, and others are righteous over much, and also some are over wise, and all these are snares, and pits, and holes. But then saiest thou, how shall I escape? Indeed thats the question, and the Holy Ghost resolves it thus, He that feareth God shall come out of them all, Eccles. 7.15, 16, 17, 18.
14. Another Motive to fear, and to grow in this fear of God, is, Such have leave, be they never so dark in their souls, to come boldly to Jesus Christ, and to trust in him for life. I told you before, that they that fear God, have in the general, a licence to trust in him: but now I tell you, and that in particular that they, and they specially may do it, and that though in the dark: you that sit in darkness and have no light, if this grace of fear be alive in your hearts, you have this boldness; Who is among you that feareth the Lord (mark that feareth the ⟨p. 197⟩Lord) and obeyeth the voice of his Servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light, let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God,