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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.
1. Know, that those that have not due ⟨p. 30⟩regard to the Word of the Lord, and that make it not their dread and their fear, but the Rule of their life is the lusts of their flesh, the desire of their eyes, and the pride of life; are sorely rebuked by this Doctrine, and are counted the fools of the world: For Lo they have rejected the Word of the Lord, and what wisdom is in them? Jer. 8.9. That there are such a people is evident not only by their irregular lives, but by the manifest testimony of the Word. As for the Word of the Lord, said they to Jeremiah, which thou hast spoken to us in the Name of the Lord, we will not hearken unto thee, but will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth out of our own mouth, Jer. 44.16.
Was this only the temper of wicked men then? is not the same spirit of rebellion amongst us in our days? doubtless there is, for there is no new thing: The thing that hath been, is that that shall be, and that which is done, is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the Sun, Eccles. 1.9.
Was this only the temper of wicked men then? is not the same spirit of rebellion amongst us in our daies? doubtless there is, for there is no new thing: The thing that hath been, is that that shall be, and that which is done, is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the Sun, Eccles. 1.9.