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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.
1. This place, as Mercies Arms, stands ope to those That their own happiness used to oppose; Those under Hedges, High-Way Men, or they That would not God nor yet good Men Obey; Those that among the bushe• •••'d to browse, Or under Hedges used themselves to louse.
1. This place, as Mercies Arms, stands ope to those That their own happiness us'd to oppose; Those under Hedges, High-Way Men, or they That would not God nor yet good Men Obey; Those that among the bushe• •••'d to brouze, Or under Hedges us'd themselves to louze.
The vilest men, of Sinners who are chief, A Fornicator, Liar, or a Thief, May turn in hither, here take up and dwell With those who ransomed are from Death and Hell1
The vilest men, of Sinners who are chief, A Fornicator, Lyar, or a Thief, May turn in hither, here take up and dwell With those who ransom'd are from Death and Hell1