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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.
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.1
9. We must also in these our dealings shew •e put a difference 'twixt those sins that do •ash with the Light of Nature, and what we •erceive against the Faith of Christ to be; •hose against Nature, Nature will detect; •hose against Faith, Faith from them must direct •he Judgment, Conscience, Vnderstanding too, •r there will be no cure, what ere you do. •hen men are catcht in immoralities, •ature will start, the Conscience will arise o Judgment; and if impudence doth recoil, et guilt and self-condemnings will imbroyl he wretch concern'd, 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.