Acacia John Bunyan

A Book for Boys and Girls
or
Temporal Things Spritualized.


By J O H N.B U N Y A N.

Licensed and entered according to order.


L O N D O N,
Printed for, and sold by, R. Tookey,
at his Printing House in St. Christopher's Court,
in Threadneedle Street, behind the Royal Exchange, 1701.

First published thirteen years after John Bunyan's death.



XXXVII.

UPON A PENNY LOAF.

Thy price one penny is in time of plenty,
In famine doubled, 'tis from one to twenty.
Yea, no man knows what price on thee to set
When there is but one penny loaf to get.

Comparison.

This loaf's an emblem of the Word of God,
A thing of low esteem before the rod
Of famine smites the soul with fear of death,
But then it is our all, our life, our breath.
[36]


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[36] When the Word of God dwells in us richly in all
wisdom, then will the peace of God rule in our hearts, and
we shall be sweetly inclined to every good thought, word,
and work.—Ed.