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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.
Again, if thy Parents be godly, and thou wicked (as thou art if thou hast not a second work or birth from God upon thee) then thou art to consider, that thou art more strongly engaged to respect and honour thy Parents, not now only as a father in the flesh, but as godly Parents: thy Father and Mother is now made of God thy teachers and instructors in the Way of righteousness: Wherefore to allude to that of Solomon, O Son hearken to the law of thy Father, and forsake not the law of thy Mother; bind them continually upon thy heart, and tie them about thy neck, Prov. 6. 20, 21.
Again, if thy Parents be godly, and thou wicked (as thou art if thou hast not a second work or birth from God upon thee) then thou art to consider, that thou art more strongly ingaged to respect and honour thy Parents, not now only as a father in the flesh, but as godly Parents: thy Father and Mother is now made of God thy teachers and instructers in the Way of righteousness: Wherfore to alude to that of Solomon, O Son hearken to the law of thy Father, and forsake not the law of thy Mother; bind them continually upon thy heart, and ty them about thy neck, Prov. 6. 20, 21.
Now to provoke thee here to consider,
First, That this hath been the practice always of those that are, and have been obedient Children; yea, of Christ himself to Joseph and Mary, though he himself ⟨p. 80⟩was God blessed for ever, Luke, 2. 51.