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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.
Thou art better able now to consider the pains and care that thy friends have been at, both for thy body and soul; wherefore strive to requite them: Thou hast strength to answer in some measure the Command; wherefore do not neglect it.
Thou art better able now to consider the pains and care that thy friends have been at, both for thy body and soul; wherfore strive to requite them: Thou hast strength to answer in some measure the Command; wherefore do not neglect it.
It is a double Sin in a gracious Son not to remember the Commandment, yea, the first Commandment, with promise, Ephes. 6. 1, 2.
Take heed of giving thy sweet Parents one snappish word, or one unseemly carriage. Love them because they are thy Parents; because they are godly; and because thou must be in Glory with them.
Again, if thou be godly, and thy Parents wicked, as often it sadly falls out: