A30128:130
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.
5. Take heed that thou suffer not an• ungodly, profane, or heretical Books o• Discourse in thy house: Evil Communication corrupts good Manners, 1 Cor. 15• 33. I mean, such profane, or heretical Books, &c. as either tend to provoke t• ⟨p. 45⟩••osness of life, or such as do oppose the fundamentals of the Gospel.
5. Take heed that thou suffer not an• ungodly, prophane, or heretical Books o• Discourse in thy house: Evil Communi•cation corrupts good Manners, 1 Cor. 15• 33. I mean, such prophane, or heretica• Books, &c. as either tend to provoke t• ⟨p. 45⟩••osness of life, or such as do oppose the ••ndamentals of the Gospel.
I know, that Christians must be allow•d their liberty as to things indifferent; •ut for those things that strike at either •aith or Holiness, they ought to be abandoned by all Christians, and especially by the Pastors of Churches, and Maers of Families: which practice was gured out by Jacobs commanding his use, and all that was with him, to put away e strange gods from among them, and to ange their garments,