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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.
The Distributor of the word of Grace He is, and at his Mouth, when he's in place, They seek the Law, he also bids them do it; He shows them Sin, and learns them to eschew it▪ By this example too he shows them how To keep their Garments clean, their knees to bow• Before the King, when he comes into place; And when they do him supplicate for Grace.1
The Distributor of the word of Grace He is, and at his Mouth, when he's in place, They seek the Law, he also bids them do it; He shews them Sin, and learns them to eschew it▪ By this example too he shews them how To keep their Garments clean, their knees to bow• Before the King, when he comes into place; And when they do him supplicate for Grace.1
Another Badge this Officer doth wear, Is that of Overseer; because the care Of the Whole House is with him, he's to see They nothing want, nor yet abused be ⟨p. 20⟩•y false Intruders, Doctrines, or (perchance) •y the misplacing of an Ordinance. •hese also are to see they wander not •rom Place or Duty, least they get a blot o their Profession, or bring some Disease, upon the whole, or get a trick to lease, Or Lye unto their God, by doing what y Sacred Statutes he commanded not.