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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.
Hast thou forgotten that most solemn Vow Thou madest to God, when thou didst crave he bow His Ear unto thee would, and give thee Grace, And would thee also in his Arms embrace? That Vow, I say, whereby thou then didst bind Thy self to him, that now thy roving mind Recoil against him should, and fling away From him, and his commandments disobey.
Hast thou forgotten that most solemn Vow Thou mad'st to God, when thou didst crave he bow His Ear unto thee would, and give thee Grace, And would thee also in his Arms embrace? That Vow, I say, whereby thou then didst bind Thy self to him, that now thy roving mind Recoile against him should, and fling away From him, and his commandments disobey.
What has he done? wherein has he offended? Thou actest now, as if thou wast intended To prove him guilty of Unrighteousness, Of breach of Promise, or that from distress He could, or would not save thee, or that thou Hast found a better good then he; but how Thou wilt come off, or how thou wilt excuse Thy self, cause thou art gone, and did refuse To wait upon him, that consider well; Thou art as yet alive, on this side Hell.
Is it not a shame, a stinking shame to be Cast forth Gods Vineyard as a barren Tree? ⟨p. 61⟩To be thrown o'er the Pales, and there to lie? Or be picked up by the' next that passeth by?1
Is't not a shame, a stinking shame to be Cast forth Gods Vineyard as a barren Tree? ⟨p. 61⟩To be thrown o'er the Pales, and there to lie? Or be pickt up by'th' next that passeth by?