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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.
1. It is seated in the heart, and the heart is, as I may call it, the main FORT in the mystical world, man. It is not placed in the head, as knowledge is; nor in the mouth, as utterance is; but in the heart, the seat of all, I will put my fear in their heart. If a King will keep a Town secure to himself, let him be sure to man sufficiently the main FORT thereof. If he have twenty thousand men well armed, if they lie scattered here and there, the Town may be taken for all that, but if the main fort be well manned, then the Town is more secure. What if a man had all the parts, yea all the arts of Men and Angels, that will not keep the heart to God.
1. It is seated in the heart, and the heart is, as I may call it, the main FORT in the mystical world, man. It is not placed in the head, as knowledge is; nor in the mouth, as utterance is; but in the heart, the seat of all, I will put my fear in their heart. If a King will keep a Town secure to himself, let him be sure to man sufficiently the main FORT thereof. If he have twenty thousand men well armed, if they lie scattered here and there, the Town may be taken for all that, but if the main fort be well man'd, then the Town is more secure. What if a man had all the parts, yea all the arts of Men and Angels, that will not keep the heart to God.
But when the heart, this principal fort, is possessed with the fear of God, then he is safe, but not else.
2. As the heart in general, so the will in special, That chief and great faculty of the ⟨p. 221⟩soul, is the principal that is acted by this fear.