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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
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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.
The Lord pittieth 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.
In his love and in his pity be redeemed them, In his love and in his pity. In all their afflictions he was afflicted, and the Angel of his presence saved them; in his love, and in his pity he redeemed them, and bare them, and carried them all the day of old, Isa. 63.9.
I say, in that he is said to pity them, it is as much as to say, he condoleth, feeleth, and sympathizeth with them in all their afflictions and temptations. So that this is the happiness of him that feareth God, he has a God to pity him, and to be touched with all his miseries. 'Tis said in Judges, His soul was grieved for the miseries of Israel, (Judg. 10.16.) and in the Hebrews, He is touched with the feeling of our infirmities, and can succour them that are tempted (Chap. 4.15. Chap. 2.17.18.