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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.
Sixthly, Wouldest thou grow in this fear of God? then set before thine eyes the being, and majesty of God: For that both begetteth, maintaineth and increaseth this fear. And hence it is called the fear of God; that is, an holy and awful dread and reverence of his majesty. For the fear of God, is to stand in awe of him, but how can that be done if we do not set him before us? And again if we would fear him more, we must abide more in the sense and faith of his glorious majesty. Hence this fear, and Gods name, is so often put together: as fear God, fear the Lord, fear thy God, do this in the fear of the Lord, and thou shalt fear thy God, I am the Lord.
Sixthly, Wouldest thou grow in this fear of God? then set before thine eyes the being, and majesty of God: For that both begetteth, maintaineth and increaseth this fear. And hence it is called the fear of God; that is, an holy and awful dread and reverence of his majestie. For the fear of God, is to stand in aw of him, but how can that be done if we do not set him before us? And again if we would fear him more, we must abide more in the sence and faith of his glorious majestie. Hence this fear, and Gods name, is so often put together: as fear God, fear the Lord, fear thy God, do this in the fear of the Lord, and thou shalt fear thy God, I am the Lord.
For these words, I am the Lord, thy God ⟨p. 206⟩and the like, are on purpose put in, not only to show us who we should fear, but also to beget, maintain, and increase in us that fear that is due from us to that glorious, and fearful name, the Lord our God, Deut. 28.58.
For these words, I am the Lord, thy God ⟨p. 206⟩and the like, are on purpose put in, not only to shew us who we should fear, but also to beget, maintain, and increase in us that fear that is due from us to that glorious, and fearful name, the Lord our God,