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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.
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. ⟨p. 41⟩Let us then use this World as we are bid; And as in Olden Times, the Godly did.
Who buy, should be, as if they did possess None of their purchase, nor themselves did bless In what they have; And he that doth rejoice In what he hath, should rather out of choice, Withdraw his mind from what he hath below, And set his Heart on whether he must go.
Who buy, should be, as if they did possess None of their purchase, nor themselves did bless In what they have; And he that doth rejoyce In what he hath, should rather out of choice, Withdraw his mind from what he hath below, And set his Heart on whether he must go.
For those that weep under their heavy Crosses, Or that are broken with the Sense of Losses, Let them remember, all things here are fading, And, as to Nature, of a Self-degrading And wasting temper; Yea, both we and they Shall waste, and waste, until we waste away: Let Temperance then, with Moderation be As bounds to our Affections, when we see, Or feel, or taste, or any ways enjoy Things pleasing to the Flesh, lest we destroy Our selves therewith, or bring our selves thereby To Surfeits, Guilt, or Satan's Slavery.