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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.
They are such also that tremble at the Word that are best able to give counsel in the matters of God, for their Judgment best suiteth with his mind and will. Now therefore said he, let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the (Strange) wives, according to the counsel of my Lord, and of those ⟨p. 26⟩•hat tremble at the Commandment of our God, •nd let it be done according to the Law, Ezra. ••.3.
Now something of the dread and terror of the Word lieth in these things.
Now something of the dread and terrour of the Word lieth in these things.
1. As I have already hinted from the Author of them. They are the Words of God. Therefore you have Moses and the Prophets, when they came to deliver their errand, their message to the people, still saying; Hear the Word of the Lord, Thus saith the Lord, and the like. So when Ezekiel was sent to the house of Israel, in their state of Religion, thus was he bid to say unto them. Thus saith the Lord God. Thus saith the Lord God, Ezek. 2.4. Chap. 3. v. 11.