A30211:626
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.
Secondly, The way that he took, at such times, to help himself, was, 1. To cry to God to lead him again to Jesus Christ, lead me to the rock that is higher than I. for indeed without faith in him, and the renewing of that faith, there can be no evidence for Heaven made to appear unto the soul. This therefore he prays for first. 2. Then he puts that faith into exercise, and that with respect to the time that was past, and also of the time that was to come. For the time past, says he, thou hast been a shelter to me, and a strong tower from the enemy; And for the time to come he said, I will abide in thy tabernacle, that is, in thy Christ by faith, and in thy way of worship by love, for ever. And observe it, he makes the believing remembrance of his first evidences for Heaven, the ground of this his cry, and faith, for thou says he, O God, ⟨p. 205⟩hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name. Thou hast made me meet to be partaker of the mercy of thy chosen, and hast put me under the blessing of goodness wherewith thou hast blessed those that fear thee.
Secondly, The way that he took, at such times, to help himself, was, 1. To cry to God to lead him again to Jesus Christ, lead me to the rock that is higher than I. for indeed without faith in him, and the renewing of that faith, there can be no evidence for Heaven made to appear unto the soul. This therefore he prays for first. 2. Then he puts that faith into exercise, and that with respect to the time that was past, and also of the time that was to come. For the time past, sayes hee, thou hast been a shelter to me, and a strong tower from the enemy; And for the time to come he said, I will abide in thy tabernacle, that is, in thy Christ by faith, and in thy way of worship by love, for ever. And observe it, he makes the believing remembrance of his first evidences for Heaven, the ground of this his cry, and faith, for thou sayes he, O God, ⟨p. 205⟩hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name. Thou hast made me meet to be partaker of the mercy of thy chosen, and hast put me under the blessing of goodness wherewith thou hast blessed those that fear thee.