A30211:604
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.
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, Isa. 50.10.
It is no small advantage, you know, when men have to deal in difficult matters, to have a patent, or licence to deal; now to trust in the Lord is a difficult thing, yet the best and most gainful of all. But then, some will say, since tis so difficult, how may we do without danger? why the Text gives a licence, a patent to them to trust in his name that have his fear in their hearts. Let HIM trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.
It is no small advantage, you know, when men have to deal in difficult matters, to have a patent, or licence to deal; now to trust in the Lord is a dificult thing, yet the best and most gainful of all. But then, some will say, since tis so difficult, how may we do without danger? why the Text gives a licence, a patent to them to trust in his name that have his fear in their hearts. Let HIM trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.