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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.
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.1
For those that weep under their heavy Crosses, Or that are broken with the Sence 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 Satans Slavery.1
8. Patience, another Duty, as we find In Holy Writ, is on this house enjoined; Her State, while here, is such, that she must have This Grace abounding in her, or a slave ⟨p. 42⟩She'll quickly be unto their lusts and will, That seek the mind of Satan to fulfil.