A30211:630
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.
Seventhly, Wouldest thou grow in this grace of fear? then keep always, close to thy conscience, the authority of the word; Fear the commandment, as the commandment of a God both mighty and glorious, and as the commandment of a father, both loving and pitiful: let this commandment, I say, be always with thine eye, with thine ear, and with thine heart: For then thou wilt be taught, not only to fear, but to abound in the fear of the Lord. Every grace is nourished by the word, and without it there is no thirst in the soul, Pro. 13.13. Chap. 4.20, 21, 22. Deut. 6.1.2.
Seventhly, Wouldest thou grow in this grace of fear? then keep alwaies, close to thy conscience, the authority of the word; Fear the commmandment, as the commandment of a God both mighty and glorious, and as the commandment of a father, both loving and pittiful: let this commandment, I say, be alwaies with thine eye, with thine ear, and with thine heart: For then thou wilt be taught, not only to fear, but to abound in the fear of the Lord. Every grace is nourished by the word, and without it there is no thrist in the soul, Pro. 13.13. Chap. 4.20, 21, 22. Deut. 6.1.2.
Eighthly, Wouldest thou grow in this grace of fear? Then be much in the faith of the promise, of the promise that maketh over to thy soul an interest in God, by Christ, and of all good things. The promise naturally tendeth to increase in us the fear of the Lord, because this fear, it grows by goodness and mercy; They shall fear the Lord and his goodness; now this goodness and mercy of God, it is wrapped up in, and made over to us by promise; for God gave it to Abraham by promise. Therefore the faith and hope of the promise, causeth this fear to ⟨p. 207⟩