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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.
A Word to Hypocrites.
Hypocrites, My last word is to you (The hypocrite is one that would appear ⟨p. 232⟩to be that in mens eyes, that he is nothing of in Gods) Thou hypocrite that wouldest be esteemed to be one that loves, and that fears God, but does not; I have this to say to thee, thy condition is damnable, because thou art an hypocrite, and seekest to deceive both God and Man with Guises, Visors, Masks, shows, pretences, and thy formal, carnal, feigned subjection to the outside of Statutes, Laws and Commandments: but within thou art full of rottenness and all excess.
Hypocrites, My last word is to you (The hypocrite is one that would appear ⟨p. 232⟩to be that in mens eyes, that he is nothing of in Gods) Thou hypocrite that wouldest be esteemed to be one that loves, and that fears God, but does not; I have this to say to thee, thy condition is damnable, because thou art an hypocrite, and seekest to deceive both God and Man with Guises, Vizards, Masks, shews, pretences, and thy formal, carnal, feigned subjection to the outside of Statutes, Laws and Commandments: but within thou art full of rotteness and all excess.
Hypocrite, Thou mayest by thy cunning shifts be veiled, and hid from men: but thou art naked before the eyes of God, and he knoweth that his fear is not in thy heart,