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a30211 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. Bunyan, John, 1628-1688. 1679 (1679) Wing B5603; ESTC R32009 112,120 247

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that fear him Here is not only pity but the pity of a relation a Father 'T is 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 'T is 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. Tenthly Dost thou fear God He will fill the desire of them that fear him he will hear their cry and will save them Psal. 145.9 Almost all those places that make mention of the men that fear God do insinuate as if they still were under affliction or in danger by reason of an enemy But I say here is still their priviledge their God is their Father and pities them He will f●lfil the desire of them that fear him Where now is the man that feareth the Lord let him harken to this What saist thou poor soul will this content thee the Lord will fulfil thy desires It is intimated of Adonijah that David his Father did let him have his head and his will in all things His Father saies the text had not displeased him at any time in so much as saying why hast thou done so 1 King 1.6 But here is more here is a promise to grant thee the whole desire of thy heart according to the prayer of holy David The Lord grant thee according to thine own heart and fulfil all thy counsel And again The Lord fulfill all thy petitions Psal. 20. O thou that fearest the Lord what is thy desire All my desires says David is all my salvation 2 Sam. 23.5 so saiest thou All my salvation is all my desire Well the desire of thy soul is granted thee yea God himself hath engaged himself even to fulfill this thy desire He will fulfill the desires of them that fear him he will hear their cry and will save them O this desire when it cometh what a Tree of life will it be to thee Thou desirest to be rid of thy present trouble the Lord shall rid thee out of trouble Thou desirest to be delivered from temptation the Lord shall deliver thee out of temptation Thou desirest to be delivered from thy Body of death and the Lord shall change this thy vile Body that it may be like to his glorious Body Thou desirest to be in the presence of God and among the Angels in Heaven This thy desire also shall be fulfiled and thou shall be made equall to the Angels Exod. 6.6 2 Pet. 2.9 Phil. 3.20.21 Luk. 16.22 chap. 26.35 36. Oh! but it is long first Well learn first to live upon thy portion in the promise of it and that will make thy expectation of it sweet God WILL fulfill thy desires God WILL do it though it tarry long wait for it because it will SVRELY come it will not tarry Eleventhly Dost thou fear God The Lord takes pleasure in them that fear him Psal. 147.11.12 They that fear God are among his chief delights He delights in his Son he delights in his works and takes pleasure in them that fear him As a man takes pleasure in his Wife in his Children in his Gold in his Jewels So the man that fears the Lord is the object of his delight He takes pleasure in their prosperity Psal. 35.27 and therefore sendeth them health from the Sanctuary and makes them drink of the River of his pleasures They shall be abundantly satisfied with the Fatness of thy House and thou shalt make them drink of the River of thy pleasures Psal. 36.8 2. That or those that we take pleasure in that or those we love to beautifie and adorn with many ornaments We count no cost too much to be bestowed on those in whom we place our delight and whom we make the object of our pleasure And even thus it is with God For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people and what follows he will beautify the meek with Salvation Psal. 149.4 3. Those in whom we delight we take pleasure in their actions yea we teach them and give them such rules and laws to walk by as may yet make them that we love more pleasurable in our eyes Therefore they that fear God since they are the object of his pleasure are taught to know how to please him in every thing 1 Thes. 4.1 And hence it is said that he is ravished with their looks that he delighteth in their cry and that he is pleased with their walking Solomons Song Ch. 4 9. Prov. 15.8 Ch. 11. v. 20. 4. Those in whom we delight and take pleasure many things we will bear and put up that they do though they be not according to our minds A man will suffer that in and put up that at the hand of the Child or Wife of his pleasure that he will not pass by nor put up in another They are my Jewels saies God even them that fear me and I will spare them in all their comings short of my will even as a man spareth his own Son that serveth him Matt. 3.16 17. On how happy is the man that feareth God! His good thoughts his good attempts to serve him and his good life pleases him because the feareth God You know how pleasing in our eyes the actions of our Children are when we know that they do what they do even of a reverent fear and aw of us yea though that which they do amounts but to little we take it well at their hands and are pleased therewith The woman that cast in her two mites into the Treasury cast in not much for they both did but make one farthing Mark 12.40 41 42 43. Yet how doth the Lord Jesus trumpet her up he had pleasure in her and in her action This therefore that the Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him is another of their great priviledges Twelfthly Dost thou fear God The least dram of that fear giveth the priviledg to be blessed with the biggest Saint He will bless them that fear the Lord SMALL GREAT Psal. 115.13 This word SMALL may be taken three waies 1. For those that are small in esteem for those that are but little accounted of Judg. 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