A30128:271
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.
Besides, little dost thou know how heart-aching a consideration it is to thy Parents, when they do but suppose thou mayest be damned: how many prayers, sighs & tears are there wrung from their hearts upon this account?
Besides, little dost thou know how heart-aking a consideration it is to thy Parents, when they do but suppose thou mayest be damned: how many prayers, sighs & tears are there wrung from their hearts upon this account?
Every miscarriage of thine goeth to their heart, for fear God should take an occasion thereat to shut thee up in hardness for ever.
How did Abraham groan for Ishmael? O, saith he to God, That Ishmael might live before thee, Gen. 17. 18.
How was Is•ac and Rebekah grieved for the miscarriage of Esau, Gen. 26. 34, 35.