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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.
Take that other blessed word, and O thou man that fearest the Lord, hang it like a Chain of Gold about thy neck. As the Heaven is high above the Earth, so great is his mercy towards them that fear him, Psal. 103.13.18. If mercy as big, as high, and as good as Heaven it self will be a privilege, the man that feareth God shall have a privilege.
Take that other blessed word, and O thou man that fearest the Lord, hang it like a Chain of Gold about thy neck. As the Heaven is high above the Earth, so great is his mercy towards them that fear him, Psal. 103.13.18. If mercy as big, as high, and as good as Heaven it self will be a priviledge, the man that feareth God shall have a priviledge.
Ninthly, Dost thou fear God? Like as a ⟨p. 147⟩Father pitieth his Children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. Psal. 103.13.
Ninthly, Dost thou fear God? Like as a ⟨p. 147⟩Father pitieth his Children, so the Lord pittieth them that fear him. Psal. 103.13.
The Lord pitieth them that fear him: That is, condoleth, and is affected; feeleth, and sympathizeth with them in all their afflictions. It is a great matter for a poor man to be in this manner in the affections of the great and mighty, but for a poor sinner to be thus in the heart and affections of God (and they that fear him are so,) this is astonishing to consider.