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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.
Tenthly, Wouldest thou grow in this grace of fear? Then study the EXCELLENCIES of the grace of fear, and what profit it yieldeth to to them that have it, and labour to get thy heart into the love, both of the exercise of the grace it self, and also of the fruit it yieldeth: For a man hardly grows in the increase of any grace, until his heart is united to it, and until it is made lovely in his eyes, Psal. 119.119, 120.
Tenthly, Wouldest thou grow in this grace of fear? Then study the EXCELLENCIES of the grace of fear, and what profit it yieldeth to to them that have it, and labor to get thy heart into the love, both of the exercise of the grace it self, and also of the fruit it yieldeth: For a man hardly grows in the encrease of any grace, until his heart is united to it, and until it is made lovely in his eyes, Psal. 119.119, 120.
Now the excellencies of this grace of fear, have also been discoursed of, in this Book before, where, by reading thou shalt find the fruit it bears, and the promises that are annexed to it, which, because they are many, I refer thee also thither for thy instruction.
Now the excellencies of this grace of fear, have also been discoursed of, in this Book before, where, by reading thou shalt find the fruit it bears, and the promises that are anexed to it, which, because they are many, I refer thee also thither for thy instruction.
Eleventhly Wouldest thou grow in this grace of fear? Then remember what a world of privileges do belong to them that fear the Lord: As also I have hinted, namely that such