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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.
XII. An Expostulation with such to return.
☞ O Shame! Is it not a shame for men to be For sin, spewed out from good Society! For man Enlightened to be so base! To turn his back upon the God of Grace! For one who for his sins has mourned, and cried! To flight him, who for sin hath bled and died! What fool would sell his part in Paradise! That has a Soul, and that of such a price! What parallel can suit with such so well, As those, for sin, cast down from Heaven to Hell.
☞ O Shame! Is't not a shame for men to be For sin, spu'd out from good Society! For man Enlightened to be so base! To turn his back upon the God of Grace! For one who for his sins has mourn'd, and cry'd! To flight him, who for sin hath bled and dy'd! What fool would sell his part in Paradise! That has a Soul, and that of such a price! What parallel can sute with such so well, As those, for sin, cast down from Heaven to Hell.
But let me tell thee here is aggravation; The Angels, tho they did fall from their station Had not the caution thou hast had; they fell: This thou hast seen; and seeing, didst rebel.