A30128:303
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.
First, For the believing Master; Sai•• Paul, They that have believing Master•• let them not despise them because they […] brethren, but rather do them service bec••• ⟨p. 87⟩they are faithful and beloved, and partakers (with the Servants) of the heaven•• Benefits, 1 Tim. 6. 2. (Servants, if they have not a care of their hearts, will be so much in the consideration of the relation that is betwixt their Masters and they, as brethren, that they will forget the relation that is between them as Masters and Servants: now, though they •ought to remember the one, yet let them take heed of forgetting the other: Know thy place as a Servant, while thou considerest that thy Master and thee are Brethren, and do thy work for him faithfully, humbly, and with meekness, because he is a Master faithful and beloved, and partaker of the heavenly Benefit.) If any man teach otherwise, saith the Apostle Paul, and consent not to wholesome Words, even the Words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Doctrine which is according to godliness, he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions, and strife of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the Truth, supposing that gain ⟨p. 88⟩is godliness; from such withdraw thy sel• 1. Tim. 6. 3, 4, 5.
First, For the believing Master; Sai•• Paul, They that have believing Master•• let them not despise them because they 〈…〉 brethren, but rather do them service bec••• ⟨p. 87⟩