A30128:322
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.
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, Prov. 26. 17,
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 medleth with 〈…〉 belonging not to him, is like one that ••th a Dog by the eares. As coals are to ••ning coals, and wood to fire; so is a con••ious man to kindle strife, Prov. 26. 17,
I do observe two things very odious in ⟨p. 94⟩many Professors; the one is a […] strong and stiff-necked spirit, that […] have its own way: and the other i• great deal of tattling and talk about ligion, but a very little, if any thing those Christian deeds that carry in […] the cross of a Christian in the doing […] of, and profit to my Neighbours.