A30128:127
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.
You know that the Jailer, Lydia, Cris•us, Gaius, Stephanus, and others, had not only themselves, but their Families made gracious by the Word •reached, and that •ome of them, if not all, by the Word preached in their houses, Acts. 16. 14, •5, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34. Acts •8. 7, 8. 1 Cor. 1. 16. And this, for ought • know, might be one reason among ma•y, why the Apostles taught in their day, •ot only publicly, but from house to •ouse. I say, that they might, if possible, •ring in those in some family, which yet remained unconverted and in their sins, Acts 5. 24. & 20. 20, 21, for some you ⟨p. 44⟩know, how usual it was in the day• Christ, to invite Him to their houses, they had any afflicted, that either wou•• not or could not come to him; Luke• 2, 3. & 8. 41.
You know that the Jayler, Lydia, Cris•us, Gaius, Stephanus, and others, had not •nly themselves, but their Families made •racious by the Word •reached, and that •ome of them, if not all, by the Word preached in their houses,