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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.
But I say, If thou wouldest be a growing Christian, growing, I say, in the fear that is Godly, in the fear that is is always so; then make conscience of striving against the other, and against all these things that would bring thee back to it. Wherefore should I fear, said David, in the day of evil, when the iniquities of my heels compasseth me about? Psal. 49.5.
But I say, If thou wouldest be a growing Christian, growing, I say, in the fear that is Godly, in the fear that is is alwaies so; then make conscience of striving against the other, and against all these things that would bring thee back to it. Wherefore should I fear, said David, in the day of evil, when the iniquities of my heels compasseth me about? Psal. 49.5.
What! not fear in the day of evil? what! not when the iniquities of thy heels compasseth ⟨p. 202⟩thee about? no, not then, says he; that is, not with that fear, that would bring him again into bondage to the law; for he had received the spirit of Adoption before. Indeed, if ever a Christian has ground to give way to slavish fear, it is at these two times, to wit in the day of evil and when the iniquity of his heels compasseth him about: But you see, David would not then, no not then give way thereto, nor did he see reason why he should. Wherefore should I, said he? I, wherefore indeed, since now thou art become a Son of God through Christ, and hast received the spirit of his son into thy heart crying father father.
What! not fear in the day of evil? what! not when the iniquities of thy heels compasseth ⟨p. 202⟩thee about? no, not then, saies hee; that is, not with that fear, that would bring him again into bondage to the law; for he had received the spirit of Adoption before. Indeed, if ever a Christian has ground to give way to slavish fear, it is at these two times, to wit in the day of evil and when the iniquitie of his heels compasseth him about: But you see, David would not then, no not then give way thereto, nor did hee see reason why he should. Wherefore should I, said he? I, wherefore indeed, since now thou art become a Son of God through Christ, and hast received the spirit of his son into thy heart crying father father.