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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.
But how do they deliver them? for so says the text. The Angel of the Lord encampeth about them that fear him, and delivereth them. Answer, The way that they take to deliver them that fear the Lord, is sometimes by smiting of their enemies with blindness that they may not find them. And so they served the enemies of Lot, Gen. 19.10.11. Sometimes by smiting of them with deadly fear ⟨p. 143⟩and so they served those that laid feige against Samaria, 2 King. 7.6, And sometimes by smiting of them even with Death it self, and thus they served Herod, after he had attempted to kill the Apostle James, and also sought to vex certain others of the Church, Act. 12. These Angels that are servants to them that fear the Lord, are them that will, if God doth bid them, revenge the quarrel of his servants upon the stoutest monarch on earth. This therefore is a glorious privilege of the men that fear the Lord. Alas they are some of them, so mean that they are counted not worth taking notice of by the high ones of the World, but their betters do respect them, the Angels of God count not themselves to good to attend on them and camp about them to deliver them. This then is the man that hath his Angel to wait upon him even he that feareth God.
But how do they deliver them? for so saies the text. The Angel of the Lord encampeth about them that fear him, and delivereth them. Answer, The way that they take to deliver them that fear the Lord, is sometimes by smiting of their enemies with blindness that they may not find them. And so they served the enemies of Lot, Gen. 19.10.11. Sometimes by smiting of them with deadly fear ⟨p. 143⟩and so they served those that laid feige against Samaria, 2 King. 7.6, And sometimes by smiting of them even with Death it self, and thus they served Herod, after he had attempted to kill the Apostle James, and also sought to vex certain others of the Church,