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A discourse of the building, nature, excellency, and government of the house of God…
A discourse of the building, nature, excellency, and government of the house of God With counsels and directions to the inhabitants thereof. By John Bunyan of Bedford.
London : printed, and are to be sold by George Larkin, at the Two Swans without Bishopsgate, 1688
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.
Meekness, tho divers troubles you are in, Will bridle Passion, be a curb to Sin. Thus God sets forth the meek before our eyes A meek and quiet Spirit God doth prize.1
- 1Job 5.13. Prov. 2.12. Chap. 16.28. Chap. 1• 20. Chap. 22. 5. Col. 3.12. Ephes. 4. 1 Tim. 6.11. Tit. 3.2. Psal. 25.9. Psa• 22.26. Psal. 147.6. Psal. 149.4. Psal. 3• 11. Isa. 29.19. 1 Pet. 3.4.
7. Temperance also is on this House impose• And whoso has it not, is greatly nosed By standers by, for greedy lustful men; Nor can all we can say, excuse us; when Intemperance any where to them shall be Apparent; tho we other Vices flee.
7. Temp'rance also is on this House impose• And whoso has it not, is greatly nosed By standers by, for greedy lustful men; Nor can all we can say, excuse us; when Intemp'rance any where to them shall be Apparent; tho we other Vices flee.