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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.
IX. The Order and manner of the Government here.
AS I have showed you who in Office are, So I will tell you how and with what care Those here entrusted with the Government, Keep to the Statutes made to that intent. By Rules Divine this House is Governed; Not Sanguinary ones, nor taught nor fed By Humane Precepts: for the Scripture saith, The Word's our ghostly Food; Food for our Faith. Nor are all forced to the same degree In things Divine, tho all exhorted be ⟨p. 28⟩To the most absolute proficiency That Law or Duty can to them descry.1
AS I have shew'd you who in Office are, So I will tell you how and with what care Those here intrusted with the Government, Keep to the Statutes made to that intent. By Rules Divine this House is Governed; Not Sanguinary ones, nor taught nor fed By Humane Precepts: for the Scripture saith, The Word's our ghostly Food; Food for our Faith. Nor are all forced to the same degree In things Divine, tho all exhorted be ⟨p. 28⟩To the most absolute proficiency That Law or Duty can to them discry.1
- 1Mat. 28.18, 19, 20. Luk. 10.54, 55, 56.