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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.
4. Art thou bound over to the great Assize, For harkning to the Devil and his Lies; Art thou afraid thereat to show thy head, For fear thou then be sent unto the dead? Thou mayest come hither here is room and place For such as willingly would live by Grace.1
4. Art thou bound over to the great Assize, For harkning to the Devil and his Lyes; Art thou affraid thereat to shew thy head, For fear thou then be sent unto the dead? Thou may'st come hither here is room and place For such as willingly would live by Grace.1
5. This place, as Fathers House, in former Days Is a Receptacle for Run-a-ways; He that like to the Ox backsliden is, Forfeited hath for Sin his share of bliss; May yet come hither, here is room and rest; Of old such have come hither and been blest.
Had this been false, O woe had been to David! Nor Peter, had nor Magdalen been saved, ⟨p. 12⟩Nor Jonah, nor Manasseh, nor the rest; No Run-a-way from God, could a been blest With kind reception at his hands; Return, Would here a come to late, if nought but burn Had been the lot of the Backsliding man: But we are told there's no rebellion can Prevent, or hinder him from being saved, That Mercy heartily of God hath craved; She that went from her God to play the Whore, Returning may be as she was before;