A30128:119
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.
I, saith David, will behave my self in a perfect way; I will walk in (or before) my house in a perfect way, Psal. 101. 2.
4. The Pastor is for getting the Church together, and when they are so come together, then to pray among them, and to preach unto them: this is also commendable in Christian Masters of Families.
Object. But my Family is ungodly […] unruly, touching all that is good, What sh•• I do?
Object. But my Family is ungodly 〈…〉 unruly, touching all that is good, What sh•• I do?
Answ. I answer, first, Though this• true, yet thou must rule them, and n• they thee: Thou art set over them• God, and thou art to use the authori which God hath given thee, both to rebuke their vice, and to show them th evil of their rebelling against the Lor This did Eli, though not enough; an thus did David,