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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.
There wanteth even in the hearts of Gods people a greater reverence of the Word of ⟨p. 29⟩God, than to this day appeareth amongst us, and this let me say, that want of reverence of the word, is the ground of all disorders that are in the heart, life, conversation, and in Christian Communion.
Besides, The want of reverence of the word layeth men open to the fearful displeasure of God. Who so despiseth the Word, shall be destroyed, but he that feareth the word shall be rewarded, Prov. 13.13.
All transgression beginneth at wandering from the word of God, but on the other side, David saith, Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer, Psal. 17.4. Therefore Solomon saith, My Son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings; let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thy heart, for they are life to them that find them, and health to all their flesh, Prov. 4.20, 21.
All transgression beginneth at wandring from the word of God, but on the other side, David saith, Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer, Psal. 17.4. Therefore Solomon saith, My Son, attend to my words; eneline thine ear unto my sayings; let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thy heart, for they are life to them that find them, and health to all their flesh,