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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.
As for the Word of the Lord, it is nothing at all to them; their lusts, and whatsoever proceedeth out of their own mouths, that they will do, that they will follow. ⟨p. 31⟩Now such will certainly perish in their own rebellion; for this is as the sin of witchcraft; it was the sin of Corah and his company, and that which brought upon them such heavy judgments; yea and they are made a sign that thou shouldest not do as they, for they perished, (because they rejected the Word, the Fear of the Lord) from among the Congregation of the Lord, and they became a sign. The Word which thou despisest still abideth to denounce its woe and judgment upon thee; and unless God will save such with the breath of his Word (and 'tis hard trusting to that) they must never see his face with comfort, 1 Sam. 15.22, 23. Numb. 26.9, 10.
2. Are the words of God called by the name of the Fear of the Lord? Are they so dreadful in their receipt and sentence? then this rebukes them that esteem the words and things of men more than the words of God, as those do who are drawn from their respect of, and obedience to the Word of God by the pleasures or threats of men.
Some there be who verily will acknowledge the authority of the Word, yet will not stoop their souls thereto: such, whatever they think of themselves, are judged by Christ to be ashamed of the Word; wherefore their state is damnable as the other. Whosoever, saith he, shall be ashamed of me ⟨p. 32⟩and of my words, in this sinful and adulterous Nation, of him also shall the Son of Man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of the Father, with the holy Angels,