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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
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That Good Works do flow from Faith.
This is evident divers ways. First, from the impossibility of their flowing from any other thing; they must either flow from Faith, or not at all: For whatsoever is not of Faith, is sin. And again; without Faith it is impossible to please Him, (Rom. 14. 23. Heb. 11. 6.) Every man by nature, before Faith, is an evil and a corrupt tree: And a corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? (Mat. 7. 16, 17.) Now a man is made good by Faith, and by that bringeth forth the Fruits that are acceptable to God, (Heb. 11. 4. Col. 1. 4, 5, 6.) Wherefore sinners before faith, are compared to the Wilderness, whose fruits are briers and thorns; and whose hearts are the habitation of Dragons; that is, of Devils, (Isa. 35. 6, 7. Heb. 6. 7, 8.) And hence again it is, that they are said to be Godless, Christless, Spiritless, Faithless, Hopeless; without the Covenant of Grace; without Strength; enemies in their minds by wicked works, and possessed by the Spirit of wickedness, as a Castle by a Conqueror, ⟨p. 14⟩Ephes. 2. 12. Jude 19. 2 Thes. 3. 2.