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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 Neighbours each to other.
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.
•1. That thou with it give no offensive ••guage to thy Neighbour, to the provoking of him to anger: bear much, put wrongs, and say little: It is an honour […] a man to cease from strife: but every […] will be meddling, Prov. 20. 3. And a••in, He loveth transgression that loveth •ife, Prov. 17. 19.
•1. That thou with it give no offensive ••guage to thy Neighbour, to the pro••king of him to anger: bear much, put •wrongs, and say little: It is an honor 〈…〉 a man to cease from strife: but every 〈…〉 will be medling, Prov. 20. 3. And a••in, He loveth transgression that loveth •ife, Prov. 17. 19.
And as thou shouldst take heed that ••ou be not be original of contention […] anger, so also take heed that thou be […] an instrument to beget it, between ••ties, by a tale-bearing and gossopping•it: He that passeth by, and meddleth with […] belonging not to him, is like one that ••th a Dog by the ears. As coals are to ning coals, and wood to fire; so is a conscious man to kindle strife,