A30128:171
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.
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, Prov. 22. 6.
Thirdly, There must be much Gentleness and Patience in all thy instructions, lest they be discouraged, Col. 3. 21.
And fourthly, Labour to convince them by a Conversation answerable, that the things of which thou instructest them, are not fables, but Realities, yea, and Realities so far above what can be here enjoyed, that all things, were they a thousand times better than they are, are not worthy to be compared with the Glory ⟨p. 57⟩and Worthiness of these things.