A30128:323
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.
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.
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 tatling 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.
1. When I say a head-strong, and […] necked spirit, I mean they are for pl•• sing themselves, and their own fanc•• in things of no weight, though their• doing, be as the very slaughter-knife the weak Conscience of a Brother• Neighbour. Now this is base: a Ch•• stian in all such things, as intrench […] the matters of Faith and Worship, sho•• be full of Self-denial, and seek to ple others rather than themselves; give none offence to the Jew, nor to the Greek to the Church of God; not seeking their […] profit, but the profit of many, that they […] be saved,