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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.
But here's no work for Life, that's freely given; Meat, Drink, and Cloth, and Life, we have from Heaven; Work's here enjoined, 'cause it is a pleasure, •ice to suppress, and augment Heavenly Treasure; Moreover, 'tis to show, if men profess The Faith, and yet abide in Idleness, ⟨p. 47⟩Their Faith is vain, no man can ever prove He's right, but by the Faith that works by love.1
But here's no work for Life, that's freely given; Meat, Drink, and Cloth, and Life, we have from Heaven; Work's here enjoyned, 'cause it is a pleasure, •ice to suppress, and augment Heavenly Treasure; Moreover, 'tis to shew, if men profess The Faith, and yet abide in Idleness, ⟨p. 47⟩Their Faith is vain, no man can ever prove Hee's right, but by the Faith that works by love.1
If this good Counsel is by thee rejected; If work and labour is by thee neglected; If thou, like David, lollest on thy Bed; Or art like to a Horse, pampered and fed With what will fire thy Lusts, and so lays Snares For thine own Soul, when thou should be in the' Wars: Then take what follows, Sin must be detected, And thou, without Repentance, quite rejected.1
If this good Counsel is by thee rejected; If work and labour is by thee neglected; If thou, like David, lollest on thy Bed; Or art like to a Horse, pamper'd and fed With what will fire thy Lusts, and so lays Snares For thine own Soul, when thou should be i'th' Wars: Then take what follows, Sin must be detected, And thou, without Repentance, quite rejected.