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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.
The Angel. It may be spoken in the singular number (perhaps) to show that every ⟨p. 142⟩one that feareth God hath his Angel to attend on him, and serve him. When the Church, in the Acts, was told that Peter stood at the door and knocked; at first they counted the messenger mad, but when she did constantly affirm it, they said, It is his Angel. Act. 12.13, 14, 15. So Christ saith of the Children that came unto him. Their Angels behold the face of my Father which is in Heaven. Their Angels; that is, those of them that feared God, had each of them his Angel, who had a charge from God to keep them in their way. We little think of this, yet this is the privilege of them that fear the Lord, yea if need be they shall all come down to help them, and to deliver them, rather then contrary to the mind of their God they should by any be abused. Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them that shall be heirs of Salvation, Heb. 1. last.
The Angel. It may be spoken in the singular number (perhaps) to shew that every ⟨p. 142⟩one that feareth God hath his Angel to attend on him, and serve him. When the Church, in the Acts, was told that Peter stood at the door and knocked; at first they counted the messenger mad, but when she did constantly affirm it, they said, It is his Angel. Act. 12.13, 14, 15. So Christ saith of the Children that came unto him. Their Angels behold the face of my Father which is in Heaven. Their Angels; that is, those of them that feared God, had each of them his Angel, who had a charge from God to keep them in their way. We little think of this, yet this is the priviledge of them that fear the Lord, yea if need be they shall all come down to help them, and to deliver them, rather then contrary to the mind of their God they should by any be abused. Are they not all ministring spirits, sent forth to minister for them that shall be heirs of Salvation, Heb. 1. last.