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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.
2. Of this word [FEAR] as it is taken for the Word of God.
But again this word [Fear] is sometimes to be taken for the Word, the written Word of God; for that also is, and ought to be the Rule and Director of our Fear. So David calls it in the 19th. Psalm. The fear of the Lord, saith he, is clean, enduring for ever. The FEAR of the Lord, that is, the Word of the Lord, the written Word; for that which he calleth in this place the Fear of the Lord, even in the same place he calleth, the Law, Statutes, Commandments and Judgments of God. The Law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: The Testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple: The Statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: The Commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes: The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: The Judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. All these words have respect to the same thing, to wit, to the Word of God, jointly designing the glory of it. Among which phrases, as you see this is one, The FEAR of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever. This written Word is therefore the object of a Christians Fear. This is that also which ⟨p. 23⟩David intended when he said, Come ye children hearken to me, I will teach you the Fear of the Lord, Psal. 34.11. I will teach you the Fear, That is, I will teach you the Commandments, Statutes and Judgments of the Lord, even as Moses commanded the children of Israel; Thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up, Deut. 6.4, 5, 6, 7.
But again this word [Fear] is sometimes to be taken for the Word, the written Word of God; for that also is, and ought to be the Rule and Director of our Fear. So David calls it in the 19th. Psalm. The fear of the Lord, saith he, is clean, enduring for ever. The FEAR of the Lord, that is, the Word of the Lord, the written Word; for that which he calleth in this place the Fear of the Lord, even in the same place he calleth, the Law, Statutes, Commandments and Judgments of God. The Law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: The Testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple: The Statutes of the Lord are right, rejoycing the heart: The Commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightning the eyes: The fear of the Lord is clean, induring for ever: The Judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. All these words have respect to the same thing, to wit, to the Word of God, joyntly designing the glory of it. Among which phrases, as you see this is one, The FEAR of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever. This written Word is therefore the object of a Christians Fear. This is that also which