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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.
Ninthly, Wouldest thou grow in this grace of fear? Then remember the Judgments of God that have or shall certainty over take those professors, that have either been down-right hypocrites, or else unwatchful Christians. For both these sorts partake of the Judgments of God; the one, (to wit, the true Christian) for his unwatchfulness, for his correction; the other (to wit, the hypocrite) for his hypocrisy, to his destruction. This is a way to make thee stand in awe, and to make thee tremble, and grow in the grace of fear before thy God.
Ninthly, Wouldest thou grow in this grace of fear? Then remember the Judgments of God that have or shall certainty over take those professours, that have either been down-right hypocrites, or else unwatchful Christians. For both these sorts partake of the Judgments of God; the one, (to wit, the true Christian) for his unwatchfulness, for his correction; the other (to wit, the hypocrite) for his hypocrisie, to his destruction. This is a way to make thee stand in aw, and to make thee tremble, and grow in the grace of fear before thy God.
Judgments? you may say, what Judgments?
Answ. Time will fail me here to tell thee of the Judgments that sometimes overtake Gods people, and that always certainly overtake the hypocrite for his transgressions.
Answ. Time will fail me here to tell thee of the Judgments that sometimes overtake Gods people, and that alwaies certainly overtake the hypocrite for his transgressions.