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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.
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.
2. This rebukes such as count it enough to present their body in the place where God is worshipped, not minding with what heart, or with what spirit they come thither. Some come into the worship of God to sleep there; some come thither to meet with their chapmen, and to get into the wicked fellowship of their vain companions. Some come thither to feed their lustful and ⟨p. 11⟩adulterous eyes with the flattering beauty of their fellow-sinners. O what a sad account will these worshippers give, when they shall count for all this, and be damned for it, because they come not to worship the Lord with that fear of his Name that became them to come in, when they presented themselves before him!
2. This rebukes such as count it enough to present their body in the place where God is woshiped, not minding with what heart, or with what spirit they come thither. Some come into the worship of God to sleep there; some come thither to meet with their chapmen, and to get into the wicked fellowship of their vain companions. Some come thither to feed their lustful and