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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 Children to Parents.
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.
There are these general things in which Children should show forth that honour that is due to their Parents from them.
There are these general things in which Children should shew forth that honor that is due to their Parents from them.
First, They should always count them ⟨p. 76⟩better than themselves. I observe a vile spirit among some Children; and that is, they are apt to look over their Parents, and to have slighting & scornful thoughts of them; this is worse than heathenish: such a one hath got just the heart of a Dog or Beast, that will bite those that begot them, and her that brought them forth.
First, They should alwayes count them ⟨p. 76⟩better than themselves. I observe a vile spirit among some Children; and that is, they are apt to look over their Parents, and to have slighting & scornful thoughts of them; this is worse than heathenish: such a one hath got just the heart of a Dog or Beast, that will bite those that begot them, and her that brought them forth.
But my Father, &c. is now poor, and I am rich, and it will be a disparagement, or at least an hindrance to me, to show that respect to him as otherwise I might.