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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.
Secondly, For the unbelieving Maste• (for of them Paul speaks in the first ver•• of this 6. of Timothy) Let as many servants, saith he, as be under the yoke, cou•• their own Masters worthy of all honour, th•• the Word of God & his Doctrine be not blasphemed.
Secondly, For the unbelieving Maste• (for of them Paul speaks in the first ver•• of this 6. of Timothy) Let as many servants, saith he, as be under the yoak, cou•• their own Masters worthy of all honour, th•• the Word of God & his Doctrine be not blasphemed.
Servants living with unbelieving Masters, are greatly engaged to be bot• watchful, faithful, and trusty. Engaged▪ I say, 1. From the consideration of th• condition of their Master; for, he being unbelieving, will have an evil eye upon thee, and upon thy doings, and so much the more because thou professest: as i• the case of Saul and David, 1. Sam. 18▪ 8, 9, &c.
Servants living with unbelieving Masters, are greatly ingaged to be bot• watchful, faithful, and trusty. Ingaged▪ I say, 1. From the consideration of th• condition of their Master; for, he bein• unbelieving, will have an evil eye upo thee, and upon thy doings, and so much the more because thou professest: as i the case of Saul and David,