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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.
What argument can any man produce, Why we should be intemperate in the use •f any Worldly good? Do we not see That all these things from us a fleeting be? What can we hold? What can we keep from flying •rom us? Is not each thing we have a dying?
My House, my Wife, my Child, they all grow old, •or am I e'er the younger for my Gold; •ere's none abiding, all things fade away, •oor I at best, am but a Clod of Clay.1
My House, my Wife, my Child, they all grow old, •or am I e'er the younger for my Gold; •ere's none ahiding, all things fade away, •oor I at best, am but a Clod of Clay.1
- 1•a. 28.1, 4. Jam. 1.11. 1 John. 2.17. Gen. 18.17.
If that be true, Man doth not live by Bread, •e that has nothing else, must needs be dead; ake Bread for what can in this world be found, et all that therein is, is but a sound; n empty sound, there is no life at all, cannot save a Sparrow from her fall.