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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
Of several sorts of fear of God in the heart of the Children of men.
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.
There is, I say, several sorts, or kinds of fear in the hearts of the Sons men, I mean besides that fear of God that is intended in the text, and that accompanieth Eternal Life.
I shall hear make mention of three of them.
1. There is a fear of God that flows, even from the light of nature.
2. There is a fear of God that flows from some of his dispensations to men which yet are neither universal, nor saving.
3. There is a fear of God in the heart of some men that is good and godly, but doth not forever abide so.