A30128:169
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 Parents.
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.
Now to do this to purpose.
First, Do it in terms and words, easy to ⟨p. 56⟩be understood: affect not high expressions, they will drown your Children. Thus God spake to his Children, and Paul to his, Hos. 12. 10. 1 Cor. 3. 2.
First, Do it in terms and words, easie to ⟨p. 56⟩be understood: affect not high expressions, they will drown your Children. Thus God spake to his Children, and Paul to his, Hos. 12. 10. 1 Cor. 3. 2.
Secondly, Take heed of filling their heads with Whimsies, and unprofitable Notions; for this will sooner learn them to be malepert and proud, than sober and humble. Open therefore to them the state of man by nature: discourse with them of Sin, of Death, and Hell; of a crucified Saviour, and the Promise of Life through Faith. Train up a Child in the Way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it, Prov. 22. 6.
Secondly, Take heed of filling their heads with Whimzies, and unprofitable Notions; for this will sooner learn them to be malepert and proud, than sober and humble. Open therefore to them the state of man by nature: discourse with them of Sin, of Death, and Hell; of a crucified Saviour, and the Promise of Life through Faith. Train up a Child in the Way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it,