B01830:0
A caution to stir up to watch against sin. By J. Bunyan
A caution to stir up to watch against sin. By J. Bunyan.
London: printed for N. Ponder, 1684
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
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.
A CAUTION TO STIR UP To watch against SIN.
By J. Bunyan,
The first Eight Lines one did commend to me, The rest I thought good to commend to thee: Reader, in reading be thou ruled by me, With Rhymes nor Lines, but Truths, affected be.
The first Eight Lines one did commend to me, The rest I thought good to commend to thee: Reader, in reading be thou rul'd by me, With Rhimes nor Lines, but Truths, affected be.
I. SIN will at first, just like a Beggar, crave One Penny or one Half-penny to have; And if you grant its first suit, 'twill aspire, From Pence to Pounds, and so will still mount higher, To the whole Soul: but if it makes its m•, Then say, here is not for you, get you gone. For if you give it entrance at the Door, It will come in, and may go out no more.
I. SIN will at first, just like a Beggar, crave One Penny or one Half-peny to have; And if you grant its first suit, 'twill aspire, From Pence to Pounds, and so will still mount higher, To the whole Soul: but if it makes its m•, Then say, here is not for you, get you gone. For if you give it entrance at the Door, It will come in, and may go out no more.