A30128:267
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.
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.
First, That this hath been the practice alwayes 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.
Secondly, Thou hast also the severe Judgements of God upon those that have been disobedient to awe thee. As 1. Ishmael, for but mocking at one good carriage of his Father and Mother, was both thrust out of his Fathers Inheritance, and the Kingdom of Heaven, and that with God's approbation, Gen. 21. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Gal. 4. 30.
2. Hophni and Phinehas, for refusing the good counsel of their Father, provoked the great God to be their enemy. They hearkened not to the voice of their Father, because the Lord would slay them, 1 Sam. 2. 23, 24, 25.
2. Hophni and Phinehas, for refusing the good counsel of their Father, provoked the great God to be their enemy. They hearkened not to the voice of their Father, because the Lord would slay them,