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Scriptural poems being several portions of Scripture digested into English verse / by John Bunyan.
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Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.
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dead Which with good Works is not accompany'd Was not our Father Abraham justify'd By Works and by the same his Faith was try'd When he his Isaac to the Altar brought Se'st thou how with his Works his Faith then wrought And with his Works he perfected his Faith And so the Scripture was fulfill'd which saith Abraham believed God and 't was imputed For Righteousness and he Gods Friend reputed Thus may you see that by Works ev'ry one Is justify'd and not by Faith alone Thus was the Haâ—lot Râ—hab justify'd By Works when she the Messengers did hide And by another way their feet did guide For as the body 's dead without the Spirit So Faith without Works never can inherit CHAP. III. AFfect not Brethren Superiority As knowing that we shall receive thereby The greater Condemnation in the end For we in many things do all offend Who doth not with his Tongue offend he can Guide his whole Body he 's a perfect Man Behold in Horses mouths we Bridles out To rule and turn their Bodies quite about Behold likewise the Ships which tho' they be Of mighty bulk and thro' the raging Sea Are driv'n by the strength of Winds yet they By a small Helm the Pilot's Will obey Ev'n so the Tongue of Man which tho' it be But a small Member in an high degree It boasts of things Behold we may remark How great a matter 's kindl'd by a spark The Tongue 's a fire a world of ill which plac'd Among the Members often hath disgrac'd All the whole Body firing the whole frame Of Nature and is kindl'd by Hell flame All kinds of Beasts and Birds that can be nam'd Serpents and Fishes are and have been tam'd By Mankind but the Tongue can no Man tame A stubborn Evil full of deadly bane We therewith God the Father bless and we Therewith curse Men made like the Deity Blessing and Cursing from the same Mouth flow These things my Brethren ought not to be so Is any Fountain of so strange a nature At once to send forth sweet and bitter water Can Olives Brethren on a Fig-tree grow Or Figs on Vines No more can water flow From the same Fountain sweet and bitter too He that 's endu'd with wisdom and discretion Amongst you let that Man by the profession Of Meekness wisely give a demonstration Of all his Works from a good Conversation But if your Hearts are full of bitterness And strife boast not nor do the Truth profess This Wisdom is not from above descending But Earthly sensual and to evil tending For where there 's strife and envying there 's confusion And ev'ry evil work in the conclusion But the true Wisdom that is from above Is in the first place pure then full of love Then gentle and intreated easily Next merciful without partiality Full of good fruits without hypocrisie And what is more the fruits of Righteousness Is sown in Peace of them that do make Peace CHAP. IV. FRom whence come Wars and Fights come they not hence Ev'n from th' inordinate concupiscence That in your Members prompts to variance You lust and have not kill and desire to have But ne'ertheless obtain not what you crave With War and fighting ye contend yet have not The things which you desire because you crave not Ye crave but don't receive the reasons just Ye crave amiss to spend it on your Lust. You that live in Adult'ry know not ye The friendship of the World is enmity With God He is God's Enemy therefore That doth the Friendship of the World adore Do ye think that the Scripture saith in vaiâ— The Spirit that lusts to hate doth in you reign But he bestows more Grace wherefore he says God scorns the Proud but doth the Humble raise Unto the Lord therefore submissive be Resist the Devil and he 'll from you flee Draw high to God and he 'll to you draw nigh Make clean your Hands you Sinners purifie Your Hearts you double-minded weep and mourn And be afflicted let your laughter turn To sorrow and your joy to sadness stoop Before the Lord and he will lift you up My Brethren speak not evil of each other He that doth judge and speak ill of his Brother Doth judge and speak ill of the Law therefore If thou dost judge the Law thou art no more A doer of the same but dost assume The Judgment-Seat and art thy self become A Judge thereof There is but one Law-giver That 's able to destroy and to deliver Who then art thou that dost condemn thy Neighbour Go to now you that say To such a place To morrow will we go and for the space Of one whole Year or so will there remain And buy and sell and get great store of Gain Whereas ye know not what a day may do For what 's the Life of Man Ev'n like unto A Vapour which tho' for a while it may Appear it quickly vanisheth away So that ye ought to say If God permit Us life and Health we will accomplish it But now ye glory in your confidence Such glorying is of evil consequence He therefore that doth know and doth not act The thing that 's good doth guilt thereby contract CHAP. XLVI GO to now O ye rich Men howl and cry Because of your approaching misery Your Riches are corrupted and the Moths Have enter'd and have eaten up your Cloaths Your Gold and Silver 's canker'd and the rust Thereof shall be an Evidence that 's just Against you and like fire your flesh devour Against the last days ye have heap'd up store The hire of them that reaped down your Field The which by you is wrongfully witheld Cries and the Voice thereof hath reach'd the Ears Ev'n of the God of Sabbath and he hears Your Lives in pleasure ye on Earth have led And as in days of slaughter nourish'd Your wanton Hearts and have condemn'd and slain The Just and he doth not resist again Be patient therefore Brethren ev'n unto The coming of the Lord behold ev'n so The Husbandman expecteth patiently The precious increase of the Earth to see With patience waiting till he doth obtain The show'rs of early and of later Rain So be ye patient fixing stedfastly Your Hearts for th' coming of the Lord draws nigh Grieve not each other Brethren lest ye bear The condemnation lo the Judge stands near The Prophets Brethren who all heretofore In the Name of the Lord their witness bore Take for Examples in their Sufferings And Patience they that endure such things Ye know are counted blest Have ye not read Of Job how patiently he suffered Have ye not seen in him what 〈◊〉 God's end How he doth pity and great love extend My Brethren but above all things forbear By Heav'n or Earth or otherwise to swear But let your Yea be Yea your Nay be Nay Lest ye become reproveable I say Let him sing Psalms that 's merry he that 's griev'd Let him by Prayer seek to be reliev'd If any of
Messenger And said Behold our Father did declare Before he died that we should come and say Forgive thy Brethren's Trespasses I pray And their Misdeeds for they have been unkind And now we humbly pray thee be inclin'd To Pardon our Offences and the rather For that we serve the God even of thy Father And 〈◊〉 wept when thus they spake and they Came nearer and before him prostrate lay And said We are thy Servants all this day And Joseph bad them not to be afraid For in the place of God am I he said For though you meant me Ill God meant it Good And sent me hither to provide you Food Now therefore trouble not your selves for I Will nourish you and all your Family After this manner did he satisfie And treat them with extream Civility And Joseph and his Father's House remain'd In Egypt and he liv'd till he attain'd An Hundred and ten years and liv'd to see Of Ephraim's Children to the Third Degree And Machir's Children of Manasseh's Tribe Were also born some time before he died Then Joseph said My Brethren lo I die But God will visit you undoubtedly And to that Land again whereof he spake Unto our Ancestors will bring you back And Joseph also made his Brethren swear That they would not interr his Body there And thus he ended his Life's Pilgrimage Being an hundred and ten years of Age And was embalm'd and in a Coffin laid In Egypt till he could be thence convey'd The End of the History of Joseph THE General Epistle of JAMES CHAP. I. UNTO the twelve Tribes scattered abroad James and Apostle of the living God And of the Lord Christ Jesus Salutation My Brethren when you fall into Temptation Of divers kinds rejoyce as Men that know From trial of your Faith doth Patience flow But let your Patience have its full effect That you may be entire without defect If any of you lack Wisdom let him cry To God and he will give it lib'rally And not upbraid But let him ask in Faith Not wavering for he that wavereth Unto a Wave o' th' Sea I will compare Driv'n with the Wind and tossed here and there For let not such a Man himself deceive To think that he shall from the Lord receive A double-minded Man most surely lacketh Stability in all he undertaketh Let ev'ry Brother of a low degree Rejoyce in that he is advanc'd but he That 's Rich in being made low for he shall pass Away as doth the flow'r of the Grass For as the 〈…〉 doth rise Is scorch'd by 〈…〉 and dies Its Flow'r fades 〈…〉 more The beauteous 〈…〉 So fades the Rich Man 〈…〉 his Store The Man is blest that doth endure Temptation For when he 's try'd the Crown of God's Salvation The which the Lord hath promised to give To them that love him that Man shall receive Let no Man be possest with a persuasion To say when he falls under a Temptation That God's the cause for with no evil can God be tempted nor tempts he any Man But every Man is tempted when he 's drawn Away and by his Lusts prevail'd upon Then when Lust hath conceiv'd it ushereth In Sin and Sin when finished brings Death Err not my Brethren whom I dearly love Each good and perfect Gift is from above Down from th' original of â—ights descending With whom's no change nor shadow thereto tending According to his own good pleasure he Begat us with the word of Truth that we Should as the first 〈◊〉 of his Creatures be Wherefore belovâ—d Brethren I intreat You to be swift 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and slow to speak And slow to wrath for wrath cannot incline The Sons of Men to Righteousness divine Wherefore avoiding ev'ry â—â—hiness And superfluity of naughtâ—â—â—s Receive with meekness the â—â—grafted word Which can Salvation to your Souls afford But be ye doers of the word each one And not deceive your selves to hear alone For he that hears the word and doth it not Is like unto a Man that hath forgot What kind of Man he was tho' in a Glass He just before beheld his nat'ral Face But whoso minds the Law of Liberty In its perfection and continually Abides therein forgets not what he 's heard But doth the Work and therein hath Reward If any Man among you seem to be Religious he deceives himself if he Doth not his Tongue as with a Bit restrain And all that Man's Religion is but vain Religion pure and undefil'd which is Acceptable before the Lord is this To visit Widows and the Fatherless In time of their affliction or distress And so to regulate his Conversation As to be spotless in his Generation CHAP. II. FAith of the Lord of Glory Jesus Christ Doth with respect of Persons not consist For if my Brethren when there shall come in To your Assembly one with a Gold Ring In goodly Cloaths and there shall also be Another Man that 's meanly cloath'd and ye Shall have respect to him in rich attire And say unto him Come thou sit up higher And bid the poor Man stand or sit below Are ye not partial then and plainly show That you do judge amiss in what you do Hearken my Brethren hath not God elected The Poor who by this World have been rejected Yet rich in Faith and of that Kingdom Heirs Which God will give his foll'wers to be theirs But you my Brethren do the Poor despise Do not the rich Men o'er you tyrannize And hale you to their Courts that worthy Name By which you 're call'd do not they blaspheme Then if ye do the Royal Law fulfil To love thy Neighbour as thy self 't is well According to the Scripture but if ye Shall have respect to Persons ye shall be Guilty of Sin and by the Law condemn'd As such who have its Righteousness contemn'd For he that shall but in one point offend Breaks the whole Law whate'er he may pretend For he that doth forbid Adultery Forbids likewise all acts of Cruelty Now tho' thou be not an Adulterer Yet if thou kill thou shalt thy Judgment bear So speak and do as those Men that shall be Judg'd by the perfect Law of Liberty For he shall Judgment without Mercy know That to his Neighbour doth no Mercy show And Mercy triumphs against Judgment too Brethren what profit is' t if a Man saith That he hath Faith and hath not Works can Faith Save him If any of the Brotherhood Be destitute of Cloaths or daily Food And one of you shall say Depart in Peace Be warmed or be filled ne'ertheless Ye do not furnish them with what they need What boots it Thus Faith without Works is dead Yea may a Man say thou dost Faith profess And I good Works to me thy Faith express Without thy Works and I will plainly show My Faith unto thee by the Works I do Thou dost believe there is one God 't is true The Devils do believe and tremble too But wilt thou know vain Man that Faith is