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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 Correction.
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.
First, See if fair words will win them from evil: This is God's way with his Children, Jer. 25. 4, 5.
Secondly, Let those words you speak to them in your reproof, be both sober, few, & pertinent, adding always some suitable sentence of the Scripture therewith; as if they lie, then such as Rev. 21. 8. 27. If they refuse to hear the Word, such as 2 Chron. 25. 14, 15, 16.
Secondly, Let those words you speak to them in your reproof, be both sober, few, & pertinent, adding always some sutable sentence of the Scripture therewith; as if they lie, then such as Rev. 21. 8. 27. If they refuse to hear the Word, such as 2 Chron. 25. 14, 15, 16.
Thirdly, Look to them that they b• not companions with those that are rud• and ungodly, showing with soberness a continual dislike of their naughtiness, often crying out to them, as God did of old unto his; Oh! do not this abominable thing that I hate, Jer. 44. 4.
Thirdly, Look to them that they b• not companions with those that are rud and ungodly, shewing with soberness a continual dislike of their naughtiness, often crying out to them, as God did of old unto his; Oh! do not this abominable thing that I hate,