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• For that holiness as I have shewed, is none other but a shadowish, —  Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
• Wherefore the song which there you learnt of the devil, is true, in the sense he made it, and in the sense for which you bring it; which is, to beget in men, the highest esteem of their own human nature; and to set up this natural, shadowish, promiseless, ignorant holiness, in opposition to that which is truly Christ's To dwell in heaven doth not more please him, than Within the souls of pious mortal men This is the song; but you find it not in Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John, but among the heathens who were his disciples, and who were wont to inquire at his mouth, and learn of him Thus have I razed the foundation of your book, even by overthrowing the holiness, and righteousness, which by you is set up, as that which is the only true gospel, and evangelical. —  Works of John Bunyan — Complete
• You know it is usual for the Holy Ghost in Scripture to call the saints sheep, lambs, heifers, cows, rams, doves, swallows, pelicans, and the like; and also to call their food, their spiritual and heavenly food, grass, provender, wheat, wine, oil, grapes, apples, figs, nuts, and the like also; all which are but shadowish and figurative expressions, even as this of the measure of the twelve thousand furlongs (John 10: 15,16; Amos 4: 3; Jer 31: 18; Cant 2: 5; —  Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
• a natural, figurative, shadowish righteousness or holiness. —  Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
• Lastly, In a word; the holiness that Adam had before, and that we lost in him by the fall; it was a natural shadowish old covenant, promiseless holiness; such as stood and might be walked in, while he stood perfectly ignorant of the Mediator Christ. —  Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02

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