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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.
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.
This is the honour and majesty then, that God hath put upon his written Word, and thus he hath done even of purpose, that we might make them the rule and directory of our FEAR, and that we might stand in awe of, and tremble at them. When Habakkuk heard the Word of the Lord, his belly trembled, and rottenness entered into his bones. I trembled in my self, said he, that I might have rest in the day of trouble, Hab. 3.16. The word of a King is as the roaring of a Lion; where the word of a King is, there is power; what is it then when God, ⟨p. 27⟩the great God shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem, whose voice shakes not only Earth, but also Heaven. How doth holy David set it forth, The voice of the Lord is powerful, the voice of the LORD is full of majesty, &c. Psal. 29