A30211:714
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.
Perhaps thou wilt not let go now, what, as an Hypocrite, thou hast got: But what is the hope of the Hypocrite, when God shall take away his soul, Job 21.8.
Hypocrite, Thou shouldest have chosen the fear of God, as how hast chosen a profession without it, but thou hast cast off fear, because thou art an Hypocrite; and because thou art such, thou shalt have the same measure that thou meetest: God will cast thee off because thou art an Hypocrite. God hath prepared a fear for thee because thou didst not choose the fear of God, and that fear shall come upon thee like desolation, and like an armed man, and shall swallow the up, thou and all that thou art, Prov. 1.29.
Hypocrite, Thou shouldest have chosen the fear of God, as hou hast chosen a profession without it, but thou hast cast off fear, because thou art an Hypocrite; and because thou art such, thou shalt have the same measure that thou meetest: God will cast thee off because thou art an Hypocrite. God hath prepared a fear for thee because thou didst not chuse the fear of God, and that fear shall come upon thee like desolation, and like an armed man, and shall swallow the up, thou and all that thou art, Prov. 1.29.
Hypocrite, Read this Text and tremble. The Sinners in Zion are afraid, fearfulness ⟨p. 235⟩hath surprised the Hypocrite, […] shall dwell with devouring fire […] as shall dwell with everlasting burning•