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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.
This Samuel insinuateth, where he saith, If ye WILL fear the Lord. Fearing of God is a voluntary act of the will, and that being so, the soul is kept from rebellion against the Commandment, because by the will, where this fear of God is placed, and which IT governeth, is led all the rest of the powers of the soul, 1 Sam 12.14. In this will then is this fear of God placed, that this grace may the better be able to govern the soul, and so by consequence the whole man; for as I said before, look what way the will goes, look what the will does, thither goes, and that does the whole man. See Psal. 110.3.
Man, when his will is alienate from God, is reckoned rebellious throughout, (Joh. 5.40.) and that not without ground, for the will is the principal faculty of the soul as to obedience, and therefore things done without the will, are as if they were not done at all. The spirit is willing; If ye be willing; she hath done what she could, and the like; by these and such like sayings the goodness of the heart and ⟨p. 222⟩action, is judged, as to the subjective part thereof.
Now this fear that we have been speaking of, is placed in the soul, and so consequently in the will, that the man may thereby the better be kept from final, and damnable apostasy.
Now this fear that we have been speaking of, is placed in the soul, and so consequently in the will, that the man may thereby the better be kept from final, and damnable apostacy.