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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. › Concerning Servants.
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.
It is out of thy place, either to talk or do, as one that reigneth.
Secondly, Consider, that thou being a Servant, what is under thy hand, is not ⟨p. 85⟩thy own, but thy Masters: Now, because it is not thy own, thou oughtest not to dispose of it; but because it is thy Masters, thou oughtest to be faithful. Thus it was with Joseph, Gen. 39. 7, 8, 9. but if thou do otherwise, know that thou shalt receive of God for the wrong that thou doest; and there is with God no respect of persons, Col. 3. 25. Wherefore,
Thirdly, Touching thy work and employment, thou art to do it as unto the Lord, and not for man; and indeed then servants do their business as becomes them, when they do all in obedience to the Lord, as knowing, that the place in which they now are, it is the place where Christ hath put them, and in which he expecteth they should be faithful.
Thirdly, Touching thy work and imployment, thou art to do it as unto the Lord, and not for man; and indeed then servants do their business as becomes them, when they do all in obedience to the Lord, as knowing, that the place in which they now are, it is the place where Christ hath put them, and in which he expecteth they should be faithful.