A30128:201
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.
Secondly, The other way is, whe• Masters greedily seek to wire-draw their Servants to such wages, as indeed is too little and inconsiderable for such work and labour. Both these the Apostle opposeth, where he saith, Masters give unto your Servants that which is just, just labour, and just wages, knowing that you also have a Master in Heaven, Col. 4. 1.
Secondly, The other way is, whe• Masters greedily seek to wier-draw their Servants to such wages, as indeed is too little and inconsiderable for such work and labour. Both these the Apostle opposeth, where he saith, Masters give unto your Servants that which is just, just labour, and just wages, knowing that you also have a Master in Heaven, Col. 4. 1.
2. As Servants may be circumvented at their coming into their labour, so also they may be at their going out. Which […] done by Masters that either change ••eir wages, like heathenish Laban, Gen, 31. 7. or by keeping it back, like those against whom God will be a swift Wit•ess, Mal. 3. 5.
2. As Servants may be circumvented at their coming into their labour, so also they may be at their going out. Which 〈…〉 done by Masters that either change ••eir wages, like heathenish Laban, Gen, 31. 7. or by keeping it back, like thos• against whom God will be a swift Wit•ess, Mal. 3. 5