A30211:79
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.
2. It is a word that is fearful, and may well be called the fear of the Lord, because of the subject matter of it, to wit, the state of sinners in another world, for that is it unto which the whole Bible bendeth it self, either more immediately, or more mediately; all its doctrines, counsels, encouragements, threatenings and judgments, have a look (one way or other) upon us with respect to the next world, which will be our last state, because 'twill be to us a state eternal. This word, this law, these Judgments, are they that we shall be disposed of by. The word that I have spoken, says Christ, it shall judge you (and so consequently dispose of you) at the last day, Joh. 12. Now if we consider, that our next state must be Eternal, either Eternal glory, or Eternal fire, and that this Eternal glory, or this Eternal fire must be our portion according as the words of God, revealed in the holy Scriptures shall determine: who will not but conclude that therefore the words of God are they at which we should ⟨p. 28⟩tremble, and they by which we should have our fear of God guided, and directed, for by them we are taught how to please him in every thing.
2. It is a word that is fearful, and may well be called the fear of the Lord, because of the subject matter of it, to wit, the state of sinners in another world, for that is it unto which the whole Bible bendeth it self, either more immediately, or more mediately; all its doctrines, counsels, incouragements, threatnings and judgments, have a look (one way or other) upon us with respect to the next world, which will be our last state, because 'twill be to us a state eternal. This word, this law, these Judgments, are they that we shall be disposed of by. The word that I have spoken, saies Christ, it shall judge you (and so consequently dispose of you) at the last day, Joh. 12. Now if we consider, that our next state must be Eternal, either Eternal glory, or Eternal fire, and that this Eternal glory, or this Eternal fire must be our portion according as the words of God, revealed in the holy Scriptures shall determine: who will not but conclude that therefore the words of God are they at which we should ⟨p. 28⟩