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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.
☞ 8. For those that have private opinions too ••e must make room, or shall the Church undo; provided they be such as don't impair ••ith, Holiness, nor with good Conscience jar; provided also those that hold them shall ••ch Faith hold to themselves, and not let fall •heir fruitless Notions in their Brothers way, […] thus, and Faith and Love will not decay.1
☞ 8. For those that have private opinions too ••e must make room, or shall the Church undo; ••ovided they be such as do'nt impair ••ith, Holiness, nor with good Conscience jarr; ••ovided also those that hold them shall ••ch Faith hold to themselves, and not let fall •heir fruitless Notions in their Brothers way, 〈…〉 thus, and Faith and Love will not decay.1
- 1••m. 14.13, 16, 22. 1 Cor. 8.9, 10, 11, 12, 13.
9. We must also in these our dealings show •e put a difference 'twixt those sins that do •ash with the Light of Nature, and what we perceive against the Faith of Christ to be; hose against Nature, Nature will detect; hose against Faith, Faith from them must direct he Judgment, Conscience, Understanding too, r there will be no cure, what ere you do. hen men are catched in immoralities, ature will start, the Conscience will arise o Judgment; and if impudence doth recoil, et guilt and self-condemnings will embroil he wretch concerned, in such unquietness r shame, as will induce him to confess is fault, and pardon crave of God and Man, uch men with ease therefore we Conquer can.