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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.
Sixthly, If thou art driven to the Rod, then, 1. Strike advisedly in cool blood; and soberly show them, 1. Their fault; 2. How much it is against thy heart thus do deal with them; 3. And that what thou dost, thou dost it in conscience to God, and love to their Souls; 4. And tell them, that if fair means would have done, none of this severity should have been: This, I have proved ⟨p. 59⟩it, will be a means to afflict their hearts as well as their bodies; and it being the way that God deals with his, it is the most likely to accomplish its end.
Sixthly, If thou art driven to the Rod, then, 1. Strike advisedly in cool blood; and soberly shew them, 1. Their fault; 2. How much it is against thy heart thus do deal with them; 3. And that what thou dost, thou dost it in conscience to God, and love to their Souls; 4. And tell them, that if fair means would have done, none of this severi•y should have been: This, I have proved ⟨p. 59⟩it, will be a means to afflict their hearts as well as their bodies; and it being the way that God deals with his, it is the most likely to accomplish its end.
Seventhly, Follow all this with prayer to God for them, and leave the issue to Him.
Folly is bound up in the heart of a Child; but the Rod of Correction will fetch it out, Prov. 22. 15.