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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.
I. By whom this HOUSE is Built.
I. By whom this HOVSE is Built.
The Builder's God, Materials his Elect; His Son's the Rock, on which it is Erect; The Scripture is his Rule, Plummet or Line, Which gives proportion to this House divine; ⟨p. 2⟩•is Working-Tools his Ordinances are, By them he doth his Stones and Timber square, Affections knit in Love, the Couplings are; •ood Doctrine like to Mortar doth cement The whole together, Schism to prevent: His Compass, his Decree; his Hand's the Spirit By which he Frames (what he means to inherit) A Holy Temple, which shall far excel That very place, where now the Angels dwell.1
THe Builder's God, Materials his Elect; His Son's the Rock, on which it is Erect; The Scripture is his Rule, Plummet or Line, Which gives proportion to this House divine; ⟨p. 2⟩•is Working-Tools his Ordinances are, By them he doth his Stones and Timber square, Affections knit in Love, the Couplings are; •ood Doctrine like to Morter doth cement The whole together, Schisme to prevent: His Compass, his Decree; his Hand's the Spirit By which he Frames (what he means to inherit) A Holy Temple, which shall far excell That very place, where now the Angels dwell.