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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.
X. The way of reducing what's amiss, into Order here.
Although this House thus honourable is, Yet 'tis not Sinless, many things amiss Do happen here, wherefore them to redress, We must keep to our Rules of Righteousness; Nor must we think it strange, if Sin shall be Where Virtue is; don't not all men plainly see That in the holy Temple there was dust, That to our very Gold, there cleaveth rust? In Abraham's Family, was a Derider In the' Palace of a King, will be the Spider.1
ALtho this House thus honourable is, Yet 'tis not Sinless, many things amiss Do happen here, wherefore them to redress, We must keep to our Rules of Righteousness; Nor must we think it strange, if Sin shall be Where Vertue is; do'nt not all men plainly see That in the holy Temple there was dust, That to our very Gold, there cleaveth rust? In Abrahams Family, was a Derider I'th' Palace of a King, will be the Spider.1
Who saith, We have no Sin, doth also say We have no need at all to watch and pray; ⟨p. 45⟩To live by Faith, the Flesh to Mortify, Or of more of the Spirit, to Sanctify Our Nature: All this wholly needless is With him, who as to this, has nought amiss.