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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.
3. It is to be called a fearful word, because of the truth and faithfulness of it. The Scriptures cannot be broken. Hear they are called the Scriptures of truth, the true sayings of God, and also the fear of the Lord, for that every jot and tittle thereof is for ever settled in Heaven, and stands more steadfast than doth the world. Heaven and Earth said Christ shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away, Matth. 24. Those therefore that are favoured by the Word of God, those are favoured indeed, and that with the favour that no man can turn away, but those that by the word of the Scriptures are condemned, those can no man justify and set quit in the sight of God. Therefore what is bound by the text, is bound, and what is released by the text, is released; also the bond and release is unalterable, Dan. 10.21. Revel. 19.9. Matth. 24.35. Psal. 119.89. Joh. 10.35.
3. It is to be called a fearful word, because of the truth and faithfulness of it. The Scriptures cannot be broken. Hear they are called the Scripturs of truth, the true sayings of God, and also the fear of the Lord, for that every jot and tittle thereof is for ever settled in Heaven, and stands more stedfast than doth the world. Heaven and Earth said Christ shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away, Matth. 24. Those therefore that are favoured by the Word of God, those are favoured indeed, and that with the favour that no man can turn away, but those that by the word of the Scriptures are condemned, those can no man justifie and set quit in the sight of God. Therefore what is bound by the text, is bound, and what is released by the text, is released; also the bond and release is unalterable, Dan. 10.21.