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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.
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.
Servants, saith Paul, be obedient to them that are your Masters—with fear & trembling, in singleness of heart, as unto Christ; not with eye service, as men-pleasers, but as the Servants of Christ, doing the Will of God from the heart, Ephes. 6. 5, 6.
Observe a little the Word of God to Servants.