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ufefuUtohis children, which for feareof drach are all their life
time (iibjcd to bondage.
Tradff. Sir, f mttfi needs Mck»ow/edge that I can/tot
anyofj*Mrexp$J[tio»shithert«:
contrsdi^
bnt Jet I am aot fatt-fi.d in the
point in (jurftion-^ mtd tlctrJore I vp,U prepofeted antther place cf
Scripture tc ytur ctttjideratien i TK-hich t6 much cited h) Divines
toprevethat Ckri/ts troubled f tar in the night before hia death
Vfasirtm the je^le tf hii Fathers j^rath for vurfins.
In H-b.5.7. Chrift in the days •f
hu flejb vfhen he had tftred
up prayers andfupplicatiens rrith firong crying
and tears unto him that rrM able fave him fr^m
death : And he was heard in that %hich hefet^-
, , * * red.
Dr,Tvl\\< doth maintainBczi for expeundinf this word Fear to
StcTtt.F»iOii
f
meanthtfejr of ajtontinment at thefielitg of Gods ^rath f*r »ur «or En-'.i'h
^
fins,}\'bich lay infnittly mtre heavy upon his foul theu any tor- TIlnfl«»on»^
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ments did upon his body.
Divine. 1 rcvcrcncc your Authours , but yet I muft tell you
that there arc other learned and godly Dirines, that arc
contrary
to them in the interpretation oi this word Fear.
King James Tranlbtors doc read it thus in the margine : Het
'^odheardibecaufeofhis piety : and M. Tymdall, and M. Ot/rr-
^/r trandate it thus, He'^at heard for hts Reverence: and the
Geneva in other places tranflate the (amcGrcck \vot6[godly~\fear:
as in Luhe 1.25. Simeon feared Godj and in y^c. 8.2. Thofe that
buried Stephen, are called Religious nun fearing God, and in Heb,
12.28. they trandatc the fame Greek vroid godly fear ^ Let us
havegracewherehy^emayferveGid acceptably with Reverence
and Godly Fear and in rhis very fcnfc mult the Grtek word bee
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tranflatcd in Heb.i;. 7. He wot heard b ecaufe ofhn godly Fearjor
becaufeofh'A Reverence^ orpiom Fear.
The Greek word doth properly figniiie fuch a FeAt as makes J^'jEfeVlSa
a man cjtceeding wary and heedfuU how he toucheth any thing cartfuurjdoe
that mjy hurt him : it fignifics fiich a wary fear, ai men hivc of the ^"^ficl^,
apple of their eye J
they arc excecdinp carcflill that not b much and^^aiyro
as a little mote may hurt it. This kind of waxy and tender fcare ,hat"rca'ycffcnd
15 proper to god line He • true godly perfons will be very wary, ^*^
noconclyhow they may doc every thing that maypleafe G^d,
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