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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.
Wherefore to this end, he ought diligently and frequently to lay before his household such things of God, out of his Word, as are suitable for each particular: and let no man question his Rule in the Word of God for such a practice; for if the thing it self were but of good report, and a thing tending to civil-honesty, it is within the compass and bounds even of nature it self, and ought to be done, much more things of a higher nature: Besides, the Apostle exhorts us to, Whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are true, just, and of good report, to think of them, that is, to be mindful to do them, Phil. 4. 8. But to be conversant in this Godly Exercise in our Family, is very worthy of praise, and doth much become all Christians. This is one of the things for which God so highly commended his Servant Abraham, and that with which his heart was so much affected: I know Abraham, saith God, (I know him to ⟨p. 40⟩be a good man in very deed) for he wi•• command his Children and his Household after him, and they shall keep the way of th• Lord, Gen. 18. 19. This was a thing also which good Joshua designed should b• his practice as long as he had a breathing time in this world: As for me, saith he and my household, we will serve the Lord Josh. 24. 15.
Wherefore to this end, he ought diligently and frequently to lay before his houshold such things of God, out of his Word, as are sutable for each particular: and let no man question his Rule in the Word of God for such a practice; for if the thing it self were but of good report, and a thing tending to civil-honesty, it is within the compass and bounds even of nature it self, and ought to be done, much more things of a higher nature: Besides, the Apostle exhorts us to, Whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are true, just, and of good report, to think of them, that is, to be mindful to do them, Phil. 4. 8. But to be conversant in this Godly Exercise in our Family, is very worthy of praise, and doth much become all Christians. This is one of the things for which God so highly commended his Servant Abraham, and that with which his heart was so much affected: I know Abraham, saith God, (I know him to