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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.
I said before, that in temporals, a man could not be properly be said to be what he was not; yet a man even in naturals or temporals, shows his love to that thing that he desires, whether it be health, riches or liberty; and in spirituals desires of, from love to this, or that grace of God sincere desires of it flow from the root of the grace it self. Thy Servants that desire to fear thy name. Nehemiah bore himself before God upon this, That he desired to fear his name.
I said before, that in temporals, a man could not be properly be said to be what he was not; yet a man even in naturals or temporals, shews his love to that thing that he desires, whether it be health, riches or liberty; and in spirituals desires of, from love to this, or that grace of God sincere desires of it flow from the root of the grace it self. Thy Servants that desire to fear thy name. Nehemiah bore himself before God upon this, That he desired to fear his name.
And hence again it is said concerning desires, true desires, The desire of a man is his kindness, Prov. 19.22. For a man shows his ⟨p. 228⟩heart, his love, his affections, and his delights, in his desires: and since the grace of fear of God, is a grace so pleasant in the sight of God; and of so sanctifying a nature in the soul where it is: a true sincere desire to be blessed with that grace, must needs flow from some being of this grace in the soul already.
And hence again it is said concerning desires, true desires, The desire of a man is his kindness, Prov. 19.22. For a man shews his ⟨p. 228⟩heart, his love, his affections, and his delights, in his desires: and since the grace of fear of God, is a grace so pleasant in the sight of God; and of so sanctifying a nature in the soul where it is: a true sincere desire to be blessed with that grace, must needs flow from some being of this grace in the soul already.