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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.
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, Prov. 4.20, 21.
Now, if indeed thou wouldest reverence the Word of the Lord, and make it thy Rule and Director in all things; Believe that the Word is the Fear of the Lord; the Word that standeth fast for ever, without and against which God will do nothing either in saving or damning of the souls of sinners.
But to conclude this: