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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.
XI. The present Condition of those thus dealt with.
THE man that worthily rejected is, And cast out of this House, his part in Bliss Is lost for ever, turns he not again, True Faith and Holiness to entertain.
Nor is it boot, for who are thus cast out, Themselves to flatter, or to go about To shift the Censure, nothing here will do, Except a new Conversion thou come to.
He that is bound on Earth, is bound in Heaven, Nor is his loosing, but the sin forgiven; Repentance too, forgiveness must precede, Or thou must still abide among the dead.1