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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.
Thus much touching the spiritual State […] thy Household.
Thus much touching the spiritual State 〈…〉 thy Houshold.
And now to its outward.
Touching the outward state of thy ••mily, thou art to consider these th• things;
First, That it lieth upon thee to c••• for them that they have a convenie•• livelihood. If any man provide not for […] own, and especially for those of his own hou•• he hath denied the Faith, and is worse th• an infidel, 1 Tim. 5. 8. But mark, wh•• the Word saith, thou art to provide […] thy house, it giveth thee no license […] distracting carefulness, neither doth […] allow thee to strive to grasp the World […] thy heart or Coffers, nor to take care f years or days to come, but so to provide for them, that they may have fo and raiment; and if either they or tho be not content with that, you launch o beyond the Rule of God,