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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.
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, Luk. 16.15.
Hypocrite, Thou maiest by thy cunning shifts be veild, and hid from men: but thou art naked before the eyes of God, and he knoweth that his fear is not in thy heart, Luk. 16.15.
Hypocrite, Be admonished that there is not obedience accepted of God, where the heart is destitute of this grace of fear. Keeping of the Commandments, is but one part of the duty of man, and Paul did that, even while he was an Hypocrite, Philippians. 3. To FEAR GOD and keep his Commandments, that is the whole duty of man, Ecclesiastes 12.13. ⟨p. 233⟩This [fear God] the hypocrite, cannot as an hypocrite do, and therefore as such, cannot escape the damnation of Hell.
Hypocrite, Thou must fear God first, even before thou dost offer to meddle with the Commandment, that is as to the keeping of them. Indeed thou shouldest read therein that thou mayest learn to fear the Lord, but yet, fear God, goes before the Command to keep his Commandments. And if thou dost not fear God first, thou transgressest, instead of keeping of the Commandments.
Hypocrite, Thou must fear God first, even before thou dost offer to meddle with the Commandment, that is as to the keeping of them. Indeed thou shouldest read therein that thou maiest learn to fear the Lord, but yet, fear God, goes before the Command to keep his Commandments. And if thou dost not fear God first, thou trangressest, instead of keeping of the Commandments.