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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.
He Sanctifies our Persons, he perfumes Our Spirits also, he our Lust consumes; Our Stinking Breath he sweetens, so that we To God and all good Men sweet-scented be; He sets Gods mark upon us, and doth seal Us unto Life, and Life to us reveal.1
3. Another sort of Officers; here are, But such as must not with these first compare; They're under-Officers, but serviceable, Not only here to Rule, but wait at Table. Those clothed are with Linen, fine and white, They glitter as the Stars of darksome Night. They have Saint Peters Keys, and Aaron's Rod; They ope and shut, they bind and loose for God.
3. Another sort of Officers; here are, But such as must not with these first compare; They're under-Officers, but serviceable, Not only here to Rule, but wait at Table. Those clothed are with Linnen, fine and white, They glitter as the Stars of darksome Night. They have Saint Peters Keys, and Aarons Rod; They ope and shut, they bind and loose for God.
The chief of these are Watch-men, they have power To mount on high and to ascend the Tower Of this brave Fabric, and from thence to see Who keeps their ground, and who the stragglers be. These have their Trumpet, when they do it sound The Mountains Echo, yea it shakes the ground.