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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.
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.
3. This fear, as I may say, even above every other grace, is Gods well-wisher; and hence it is called, as I also have showed you, HIS fear. As he also says in the Text mentioned above, I will put MY fear in their heart. These words HIS and MY, they are intimate, and familiar expressions, bespeaking, not only great favour to man, but a very great trust put in him: As who should say, this fear is my special friend, it will subject, and bow the soul and the several faculties thereof to my pleasure, it is my great favourite and subdueth sinners to my pleasure: you shall rarely find faith, or repentance, or parts, go under such familiar characters as this blessed fear of the Lord doth. Of all the counsellors, and mighties, that David had, Hushi only was called the Kings Friend, (