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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.
Many Christians live, and do, in this ⟨p. 48⟩world, as if Religion were but a by-bi• ness, and this World the one thing nieces sary; when indeed all the things of […] world are but things by the by; and Religion only the one thing needful, Luk• 10. 40, 41. 42.
Many Christians live, and do, in this ⟨p. 48⟩world, as if Religion were but a by-bi• ness, and this World the one thing nece• sary; when indeed all the things of 〈…〉 world are but things by the by; and R••ligion only the one thing needful, Luk• 10. 40, 41. 42.
Thirdly, If thou wouldst be such a M• ster of a Family as becomes thee, th• must see that there be that Christi• Harmony among those under thee, as b• comes that house where one ruleth th• feareth God. 1. Thou must look that t• Children & Servants be under subject• on to the Word of God: for though it of God only to rule the heart, yet he e•• pecteth that thou shouldst rule their ou• ward man; which if thou dost not, he m• in short time cut off all, of thy stock, that p seth against the wall,