Charles H. Spurgeon on Psalms 119:38
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Psalms119:38
The four kinds of fear.
1. The fear of man, by which we are led rather to do wrong than to suffer evil.
2. Servile fear, through which we are induced to avoid sin only from the dread of hell.
3. Initial fear, in which we avoid sin partly from the fear of hell, but partly also from the love of God, which is the fear of ordinary Christians.
4. Filial fear, when we are afraid to disobey God only and altogether from the love we bear him. Jeremiah 32:40. Ayguan, in J. Edward Vaux's "Preacher's Storehouse, "1878.
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