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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 further let us take notice of the comparison. As a Father pitieth his Children, so ⟨p. 148⟩the Lord pitieth them that fear him. Here is not only pity, but the pity of a relation, a Father. 'Tis said in another place. Can a woman (a mother) forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the Son of her womb? yea she may, yet will not I forget thee. The pity of neighbours and acquaintance helpeth in times of distress, but the pity of a Father and a mother, is pity with an over and above. The Lord, says James, is very pitiful, and of tender mercy, Pharaoh called Joseph his tender Father, because he provided for him against the famine, but how tender a Father is God? how full of bowels, how full of pity? Jam. 5.11. Gen. 41.43 marg. 'Tis said that when Ephraim was afflicted, Gods bowels were troubled for him, and turned within him towards him, O that the man that feareth the Lord did but believe the pity and bowels that are in the heart of God and his Father towards him Jer. 31.18, 19, 20.
But further let us take notice of the comparison. As a Father pitieth his Children, so ⟨p. 148⟩the Lord pitieth them that fear him. Here is not only pity, but the pity of a relation, a Father. 'Tis said in another place. Can a woman (a mother) forget her sucking child, that shee should not have compassion on the Son of her womb? yea she may, yet will not I forget thee. The pity of neighbors and acquaintance helpeth in times of distress, but the pity of a Father and a mother, is pity with an over and above. The Lord, saies James, is very pitiful, and of tender mercy, Pharaoh called Joseph his tender Father, because he provided for him against the famine, but how tender a Father is God? how full of bowels, how full of pity? Jam. 5.11. Gen. 41.43 marg. 'Tis said that when Ephraim was afflicted, Gods bowels were troubled for him, and turned within him towards him, O that the man that feareth the Lord did but believe the pity and bowels that are in the heart of God and his Father towards him