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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.
III. Of the Conveniences of this House.
III. Of the Conveniencies of this House.
Within these Walls the Builder did devise That there the Householders might Sacrifice; Here is an Altar, and a Laver too, And Priests abundance, Temple-Work to do; Nor want they Living Offerings nor yet Fire, Nor holy Garments; what Divine Desire Commands, it has bestowed on this place; Here be the Censers, here's the Throne of Grace; None of the Householders need go else where, To Offer Incense, or Good-News to hear.1
WIthin these Walls the Builder did devise That there the Housholders might Sacrifice; Here is an Altar, and a Laver too, And Priests abundance, Temple-Work to do; Nor want they Living Offerings nor yet Fire, Nor holy Garments; what Divine Desire Commands, it has bestowed on this place; Here be the Censers, here's the Throne of Grace; None of the Housholders need go else where, To Offer Incense, or Good-News to hear.1
A Throne for Judgment he did here Erect, Virtue to cherish, Folly to detect; Statutes and Laws, unto this House he gave, To teach who to Condemn, and who to Save: By things thus wholesome taught is every Brother To fear his God, and to love one another.