A30211:617
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.
There is utterly a fault among Christians ⟨p. 201⟩about this thing: That is, they make not that conscience of resisting of slavish fear, as they ought; they rather cherish and entertain it, and so weaken themselves, and that fear that they ought to strengthen.
And this is the reason that we so often lie grabbling under the black, and amazing thoughts that are engendered in our hearts by unbelief: For this fear nourisheth unbelief; that is now it doth, (to wit, if we give way to it after the spirit of Adoption is come) & readily closeth with all the fiery darts of the wicked.
And this is the reason that we so often lie grabling under the black, and amazing thoughts that are engendred in our hearts by unbelief: For this fear nourisheth unbelief; that is now it doth, (to wit, if we give way to it after the spirit of Adoption is come) & readily closeth with all the fiery darts of the wicked.
But Christians are ready to do with this fear as the Horse does when the tines of the fork are set against his side, even lean to it until it entereth into his belly. We lean naturally to this fear, I mean, after God has done good to our souls; it is hard striving against it, because it has even our sense and feeling of its side.
But Christians are ready to do with this fear as the Horse does when the tines of the fork are set against his side, even lean to it untill it entereth into his belly. We lean naturally to this fear, I mean, after God has done good to our souls; it is hard striving against it, because it has even our sence and feeling of its side.