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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.
Repent I must, or I am cast away; Believe I must; or nothing I Obey: Love God I must, or nothing I can do, That's worth so much as loosing of my Shoo• If I do not bear after Christ, my Cross; If Love to Holiness is at a loss; If I my Lusts seek not to mortify; If to my self, my Flesh, I do not dye; What Law, should I observe it, can do me good? In little Duties Life hath never stood.1
Repent I must, or I am cast away; Believe I must; or nothing I Obey: Love God I must, or nothing I can do, That's worth so much as loosing of my Shoo• If I do not bear after Christ, my Cross; If Love to Holiness is at a loss; If I my Lusts seek not to mortifie; If to my self, my Flesh, I do not dye; What Law, should I observ't, can do me good? In little Duties Life hath never stood.1
One Reads, he Prays, he Catechises too; But doth he nothing else, what doth he do? I Read to know my Duty, I do pray To God to help me do it day by day; If this be not my end in what I do, I am a Sot, an Hypocrite also. I am Baptized, what then? unless I dye To Sin, I cover Folly with a Lye. At the Lords Table, I do eat; what tho? There some have eat their own Damnation too.
One Reads, he Prays, he Catechises too; But doth he nothing else, what doth he do? I Read to know my Duty, I do pray To God to help me do it day by day; If this be not my end in what I do, I am a Sot, an Hypocrite also. I am Baptiz'd, what then? unless I dye To Sin, I cover Folly with a Lye. At the Lords Table, I do eat; what tho? There some have eat their own Damnation too.