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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.
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.
15. Another Motive to fear and grow in the grace of fear, is, God will own and acknowledge such to be his, who ever he rejecteth. Yea he will distinguish and separate them from all others, in the day of his terrible Judgments.
15. Another Motive to fear and grow in the grace of fear, is, God will own and acknowledge such to be his, who ever he rejecteth. Yea he will distinguish and seperate them from all others, in the day of his terrible Judgments.
He will do with them, as he did by those that sighed for the abominations that were done in the Land, (Ezek. 9.) command the man that hath his Inkhorn by his side, To set a mark upon their foreheads, that they might not fall in that Judgment with others.