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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.
I tell thee thou arguest like an Atheist, and a Beast; and standest in this, full flat against the Son of God. Read Mark, 7. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.
Must a gift, and a little of the glory of the Butterfly, make thee that thou shalt •ot do for, and honour to thy Father and Mother? A wise man maketh a glad Father; but a foolish son despiseth his Mother, Prov. 15. 20. Though thy Parents be ne•er so low, and thou thy self never so •igh, yet he is thy Father, and she thy Mother, and they must be in thy eye i• ⟨p. 77⟩great esteem. The eye that mocketh at his Father, and that despiseth to obey his mother, the Ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young Eagles shall eat it, Prov. 30. 17.
Must a gift, and a little of the glory of the Butterfly, make thee that thou shalt •ot do for, and honour to thy Father and Mother? A wise man maketh a glad Fa•her; but a foolish son despiseth his Mother, Prov. 15. 20. Though thy Parents be ne•er so low, and thou thy self never so •igh, yet he is thy Father, and she thy Mother, and they must be in thy eye i• ⟨p. 77⟩