A30128:274
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.
How was Is•ac and Rebekah grieved for the miscarriage of Esau, Gen. 26. 34, 35.
And how bitterly did David mourn for his Son, who died in his wickedness, 2 Sam. 18. 32, 33.
Lastly, And can any imagine, but that all these carriages of thy godly Parents, will be to thee the increase of thy torments in Hell, if thou die in thy sins, notwithstanding?
Lastly, And can any imagin, but that all these carriages of thy godly Parents, will be to thee the increase of thy torments in Hell, if thou die in thy sins, notwithstanding?
Again, if thy Parents and thou also be godly, how happy a thing is this? how shouldst thou rejoice that the same Faith should dwell both in thy Parents and thee? thy conversion, possibly, is the fruits of thy Parents groans and prayers for thy soul, and they cannot chose but rejoice; do thou rejoice with them.