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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. › The Duty of Wives.
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.
2. Bare with patience his unruly and unconverted behaviour: thou art alive; •e is dead: thou art principled with Grace; he with Sin. Now then, seeing Grace is stronger than Sin, and Ver••e than Vice, be not overcome with •is vileness, but overcome that with thy virtues, Rom. 12. 21. 'Tis a shame for ••ose that are gracious, to be as lavishing […] their words, &c. as those that are graceless. They that are slow to wrath, •re of great understanding: but they that •re hasty in spirit, exalt folly, Prov. 14. •9.
2. Bare with patience his unruly and •nconverted behaviour: thou art alive; •e is dead: thou art principled with Grace; he with Sin. Now then, see•ng Grace is stronger than Sin, and Ver••e than Vice, be not overcome with •is vileness, but overcome that with thy •ertues, Rom. 12. 21. 'Tis a shame for ••ose that are gracious, to be as lavishing 〈…〉 their words, &c. as those that are •raceless. They that are slow to wrath, •re of great understanding: but they that •re hasty in spirit, exalt folly, Prov. 14. •9.