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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.
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.
But we confess, 'cause we would not be Liars, That we still feel the motions and desires Of Sin within us, and should fall away, Did not Christ intercede, and for us pray.1
But we confess, 'cause we would not be Liers, That we still feel the motions and desires Of Sin within us, and should fall away, Did not Christ intercede, and for us pray.1
We therefore do conclude that Sin is here, But that it may not to our shame appear, We have our Rules, thereby with it to deal, And Plasters too, our deadly Wounds to heal. And seeing Idleness gives great occasions To the' Flesh, to make it's rude and bold invasions Upon good Orders, 'tis ordained we see, That none dwell here, but such as workers be; So plain's the Law for this, and so complete, It bids who will not work, forbear to eat; Let then each one, be diligent to do What Grace or Nature doth oblige them to.