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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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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.
If God, I say, hath put that reverence upon his Word, as to call it, The Fear of the Lord, what will become of them that do what they can to overthrow its authority, by denying it to be his Word, and by raising cavils against its authority? such stumble indeed at the Word, being appointed thereunto, but it shall judge them in the last day, 1 Pet. 2.8. John 12.48. But thus much for this.
Having thus spoken of the Object and Rule of our Fear;