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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
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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, Mark 8.38.
3. And if these things be so, what will become of those that mock at, and professedly contemn the words of God, making them as a thing ridiculous, and not to be regarded? shall they prosper that do such things? from the promises it is concluded, that their judgment now of a long time slumbereth not, and when it comes it will devour them without remedy, 2 Cor. 36.15.
3. And if these things be so, what will become of those that mock at, and professedly contemn the words of God, making them as a thing ridiculous, and not to be regarded? shall they prosper that do such things? from the promises it is concluded, that their judgment now of a long time slumbreth not, and when it comes it will devour them without remedy, 2 Cor. 36.15.