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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.
Here haunt the Fairies with their chanting Voices Fiends like to Angels, to bewitch our choices; Baits for the Flesh lie here on every side: Who dares set here one foot without a Guide? Master Delusion dwelleth by our walks, Who with Confusion, Sings and Prays and talks He says the straight Path's his, and ours th•• wide What then can we do here without a Guide?
Let God then give our Leaders always Eyes Yea let him make them Holy, Bold, and Wise ⟨p. 24⟩And help us fast by them for to abide, And suffer not the Blind to be our Guide.1
4. Here are of Rulers, yet another sort, Such as direct our manners to comport With our Professed Faith, that we to view, May let Beholders know that we are new. These are our Conversations to inspect, And us in our employments to direct, That we in Faith and Love do every thing, That reacheth from the Peasant to the King. That there may be no scandal in our ways, Nor yet in our Profession all our days. These should after our Busy-Bodies look, Tale bearers also they have undertook To keep in order, also they must see None that can work among us Idle be, Jars Discords, Frauds, with Grievances and wrongs, These they're to regulate; to them belongs The Judgment of all matters of this kind, And happy is the House thus Disciplined.