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Christian behaviour, or, The fruits of true Christianity showing the ground from whence they…Christian behaviour, or, The fruits of true Christianity shewing the ground from whence they…
Christian behaviour, or, The fruits of true Christianity showing the ground from whence they flow in their godlike order in the duty of relations, as husbands, wives, parents, children, masters, servants &c. : with a word of direction to all backsliders / by John Bunyan.Christian behaviour, or, The fruits of true Christianity shewing the ground from whence they flow in their godlike order in the duty of relations, as husbands, wives, parents, children, masters, servants &c. : with a word of direction to all backsliders / by John Bunyan.
London: printed for F. Smith, 1663
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Christian Behaviour; OR, The Fruits of true Christianity. › Touching the Master of a Family.
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.
Touching the Master of a Family.
If thou have under thee a Family then thou art to consider the several relations thou standest under; and art t• know, that thou in each of them hast• work to do for God; and that he expectteth thy faithful Deportment under every one of them. As,
If thou have under thee a Family then thou art to consider the several re•lations thou standest under; and art t• know, that thou in each of them hast• work to do for God; and that he expect•eth thy faithful Deportment under eve•ry one of them. As,
First then in general, He that is th• Master of a Family, he hath, as under that relation, a work to do for God; t• wit, The right governing of his own Family; and his work is twofold.
First then in general, He that is th• Master of a Family, he hath, as unde that relation, a work to do for God; t wit, The right governing of his own Family; and his work is twofold.