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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.
His eye is upon them, that is, to watch over them for good. He that keepeth Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps. His eyes are upon them, and he will keep them as a Shepherd doth his Sheep: that is, from those wolves that seek to devour them, and to swallow them up in death. His eyes are upon them, for they are the Object of his delight, The rarities of the world, in whom, saith he, is all my delight. His eye is upon them, as I said before, To teach and instruct them. I will teach thee and instruct thee in the way that thou shalt go, I will guide thee with mine eye. Psal. 32.8. 2 Chron. 7.15.16. The eye of the Lord, therefore is upon them, not to take advantage of them to destroy them for their sins, but to guide, to help and deliver them from death, from that death that would feed upon their souls. To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine. Take Death here, for Death spiritual, and Death eternal, and the Famine here, not for that that is for want of bread and water, but for that which comes on many for want of the word of the Lord (Revel. 20.14. Amos 8.11, 12.) and then the sense is this The man that feareth the Lord, shall neither die ⟨p. 140⟩spiritually nor eternally, for God will keep him with his eye from all those things that would in such a manner kill him. Again, should there be a famine of the word, should there want both the word and them that preach it in the place that thou dost dwell, yet Bread shall be given thee, and thy water shall be sure; thou shalt not die of the famine because thou fearest God. I say that man shall not, Behold he shall not, because he feareth God. and this the next head doth yet more fully manifest.
His eye is upon them, that is, to watch over them for good. He that keepeth Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps. His eyes are upon them, and he will keep them as a Shepherd doth his Sheep: that is, from those wolves that seek to devour them, and to swallow them up in death. His eyes are upon them, for they are the Object of his delight, The rarities of the world, in whom, saith he, is all my delight. His eye is upon them, as I said before, To teach and instruct them. I will teach thee and instruct thee in the way that thou shalt go, I will guide thee with mine eye.