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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.
1. For those that are small in esteem, for those that are but little accounted of (Judg. ⟨p. 153⟩6.15. 1 Sam. 18.23.) Art thou small or little in this sense, yet if thou fearest God, thou art sure to be blessed. He shall bless them that fear him, small and great, be thou never so small in the worlds eyes, in thine own eyes, in the Saints eyes (as sometimes one Saint is little in another Saints eye;) yet thou, because thou fearest God, art put among the blessed.
1. For those that are small in esteem, for those that are but little accounted of (Judg. ⟨p. 153⟩6.15. 1 Sam. 18.23.) Art thou small or little in this sence, yet if thou fearest God, thou art sure to be blessed. He shall bless them that fear him, small and great, be thou never so small in the worlds eyes, in thine own eyes, in the Saints eyes (as sometimes one Saint is little in another Saints eye;) yet thou, because thou fearest God, art put among the blessed.
2. By small, sometimes is meant those that are but small of stature, or young in years, little Children, that are easily passed by and looked over: as those that sang Hosanna in the Temple were when the Pharisees deridingly said of them to Christ, dost thou hear what THESE say? Matth. 20.16. Well, but Christ would not despise them of them that feared God, but preferred them by the Scripture-Testimony far before those that did contemn them. Little Children how small so ever, and although of never so small esteem with men, shall also, if they fear the Lord be blessed with the greatest Saints. He shall bless them that fear him small and great.