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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.
O shame! is it not a shame for man to be, So much averse to his felicity, That none can make him leave to play the fool, Till to the Devil he be put to School, To learn his own Salvation to prize? O Fool! must now the Devil make thee wise? O Sot! that will in wickedness remain, Unless the Devil drives thee back again.1
O shame! is't not a shame for man to be, So much averse to his felicity, That none can make him leave to play the fool, Till to the Devil he be put to School, To learn his own Salvation to prize? O Fool! must now the Devil make thee wise? O Sot! that will in wickedness remain, Unless the Devil drives thee back again.1
Hast quite forgot how thou wast wont to pray, And cry out for forgiveness night and day? ⟨p. 60⟩Or dost thou count they were but painted fears Which from thine Eyes did squeeze so many Tears? Remember man, thy Prayers and Tears will cry Thee down to Hell, for thine Apostasy. Who will not have what he has Prayed for, Must die the death, his Prayers shall him abhor.
Hast quite forgot how thou wast wont to pray, And cry out for forgiveness night and day? ⟨p. 60⟩Or dost thou count they were but painted fears Which from thine Eyes did squeeze so many Tears? Remember man, thy Prayers and Tears will cry Thee down to Hell, for thine Apostacy. Who will not have what he has Prayed for, Must die the death, his Prayers shall him abhor.