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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.
The reason is, Achan a Member was Of that great Body, and by Natures Laws The Hand, Foot, Eye, Tongue, Ear, or one• the•• May taint the whole with Achans foul Disea•• The Church must too be sensible of this, Some leprous stones, make all the House ami•• And as the Stones must thence removed be, In order to the Houses Sanctity; So it must purged be (in any wise) Before 'tis counted clean (by Sacrifice.)1
- 1Levit. 14.33. to 53.
3. Next have a care, lest sin, which y•• should purg•• Becomes not unto you a further scourge; The which it will, if such shall Judges be, Which from its Spots and Freckles are n•• fre•• Pluck thou the beam first out of thine own ey•• Else the Condemned will thee vilify; ⟨image 29⟩••d say, Let not the Pot, the Kettle judge; • otherwise, it will beget a grudge, • great one 'twixt the Church and him that sinned, •or by such means, can ever such be wined […] a renewed embrace of holiness, ••re like be tempted further to transgress.