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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. › Of Masters to Servants.
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.
Of Masters to Servants.
Masters also have a work to do as they stand related to their Servants.
MAsters also have a work to do as they stand related to their Servants.
And first, If possible they can, to get them that fear God. He that worketh deceit, saith David, shall not dwell within my House; and he that telleth lies, shall not tarry in my sight, Psal. 101. 7.
Secondly, But if none at the present but unbelievers can be got to do thy labour; Then,
1. Know that it is thy duty so to behave thy self to thy Servant, that thy service may not only be for thy good, but for the good of thy Servant, and that both in body and soul: Wherefore deal with him, as to admonition, as with thy Children; give him the same Bread of