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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.
This House then is no Nurse to Idleness; Fig-Trees are here to keep, and Vines to dress; Here's work for all; yea work that must be done; Yet work, like that, to playing in the Sun; The Toil's a pleasure, and the Labour sweet, Like that of David's Dancing in the street: The work is short, the wages is for ever, The work like me, the wages like the Giver.1
This House then is no Nurse to Idleness; Fig-Trees are here to keep, and Vines to dress; Here's work for all; yea work that must be done; Yet work, like that, to playing in the Sun; The Toyl's a pleasure, and the Labour sweet, Like that of David's Dancing in the street: The work is short, the wages is for ever, The work like me, the wages like the Giver.1
No Drone must hide himself under those Eaves; Who sows not, will in Harvest Reap no Sheaves: The slothful man himself, may plainly see, The Honey's gotten by the working Be.
No Drone must hide himself under those Eaves; Who sows not, will in Harvest Reap no Sheaves: The sloathful man himself, may plainly see, The Honey's gotten by the working Bee.