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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.
Temperance, the Mother is, of Moderation, The Beauty also of our Conversation.
Temperance will our affections moderate, And keep us from being inordinate In our Embraces, or in our Salutes Of what we have, also in our pursuits Of more, and in a Sedate settlement Of mind, will make's in all states be content; ⟨p. 40⟩Nor want we here an argument to prove, That who inordinate is, in his love Of Worldly things, doth better things defy, •nd slight Salvation for the Butter-fly.1
Temperance will our affections moderate, And keep us from being inordinate In our Embraces, or in our Salutes Of what we have, also in our pursuites Of more, and in a Sedate settlement Of mind, will make's in all states be content; ⟨p. 40⟩Nor want we here an argument to prove, That who inordinate is, in his love Of Worldly things, doth better things defy, •nd slight Salvation for the Butter-fly.1
- 1• Pet. 1.6. Phil. 3.18, 19. 1 Cor. 9.25. Phil. 4.11, 12, 13. Prov. 23.5.