A30128:186
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.
1. Take heed that the mis-deeds for which thou correctest thy Children be not learned them by thee. Many Children learn that wickedness of their Parents, for which they beat and chastise them.
1. Take heed that the mis-deeds for which thou corectest thy Children be not learn'd them by thee. Many Children learn that wickedness of their Parents, for which they beat and chastise them.
2. Take heed thou smile not upon them to encourage them in small faults, lest that thy carriage to them, be an encouragement to them to commit greater.
3. Take heed thou use not unsavoury and unseemly words in thy chastising of them, as railing, mis-calling, and the like; this is devilish.
3. Take heed thou use not unsavory and unseemly words in thy chastising of them, as railing, mis-calling, and the like; this is devilish.
4. Take heed thou do not use them ⟨p. 60⟩