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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.
I have heard some poor Servants say, That in some carnal families, they have had more liberty to God's things, and more fairness of dealing, than among Professors. But this stinketh: and as Jacob said concerning the cruelty of his two Sons, so may I say of such Masters, they make Religion stink before the inhabitants of the Land, Gen. 34. 30.
In a word, learn of the Lord Jesus to carry your selves well to your Servants, that your Servants also may learn something of the kindness of Christ by your ⟨p. 64⟩deportment to them: Servants are g• errs aswell as comers; take heed that thou give them no occasion to scandal the Gospel when they are gone, for what they observed thee unrighteously to do when they were with thee.
In a word, learn of the Lord Jesus to carry your selves well to your Servants, that your Servants also may learn something of the kindness of Christ by your ⟨p. 64⟩deportment to them: Servants are g• ers aswel as comers; take heed that thou give them no occasion to scandal the Gospel when they are gone, for what they observed thee unrighteously to do when they were with thee.
Then Masters carry it rightly toward their Servants, when they labour both in word and life to convince them, that the things of God are the One thing necessary.