The Riches of Bunyan: Selected from His WorksBunyan, John
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The Riches of Bunyan: Selected from His Works
Bunyan, John
Theology, Doctrinal
Now will he broken up those prophecies and promises that to this day
lie as under lock and key, and that cannot be opened until they be
fulfilled. Now the church of God shall read with great plainness the
depths of providence, and the turnings and windings of all God's
dark and intricate dispensations, through which she hath waded in
the cloudy and dark day: now, I say, they shall see there was a
harmony in them, and that, if one of them had been wanting, the work
and way of her deliverance could not have been so full of the wisdom
and justice and goodness of God. Wherefore now will that song be
sung with clearer notes than ever: "Great and marvellous are thy
works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of
saints. Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for
thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before
thee; for thy judgments are made manifest;"
WARNING AGAINST A RETURN TO ANTICHRIST.
Must antichrist be destroyed? Then what mean they who were to
appearance once come out, but now are going thither again.
If it cost Lot's wife dear for but looking hack, shall it not cost
them much dearer that are going back, that are gone back again; and
that after the angel had flown through the midst of heaven,
preaching the gospel to those that dwell on the earth?
They that received the mark of the beast at first, before this angel
came forth, are, when compared with these, excusable. Wherefore they
are not threatened with the smoking wrath that these are.
You dread that which is like to become of them that will be so mad
as to run into a house when fire is put to the gunpowder barrel in
order to its blowing up. Why, thus do they, let their pretended
cause he what it will, that are returning again to Babylon. Are her
plagues pleasant or easy to be borne? Or dost thou think that God is
at play with thee, and that he threateneth but in jest? Her plagues
are death and mourning and famine and fire; are these things to be
overlooked? And they that, as before hinted, shall receive the mark
of the beast in their forehead or in their hand, and shall worship
him, they shall drink the wine of the wrath of God. And will this be
a delightsome draught?
FROM THE "INTRODUCTION TO THE HOLY CITY."
My fourth word is to the lady of kingdoms, the well-favored harlot,
the mistress of witchcrafts and the abominations of the earth.
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