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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 Pride.
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.
Of Pride.
1. Pride in general, it is, That which causeth a man to think of man, and his things, above what is written, 1 Cor. 4. 6.
2. It hath its seat in the heart among these enormities, Fornications, Adulteries, Lasciviousness, Murders, Deceit, &c. Mark 7. 21, 22, 23. and showeth it self in these following particulars.
2. It hath its seat in the heart among these inormities, Fornications, Adulteries, Lasciviousness, Murders, Deceit, &c. Mark 7. 21, 22, 23. and sheweth it self in these following particulars.
First, When you slight this or that person, though gracious; that is, look over them, and shun them for their poverty in this world, and choose rather to have converse with others, that possibly are less gracious, because of their greatness in this World.
First, When you slight this or that person, though gracious; that is, look over them, and shun them for their poverty in this world, and chuse rather to have converse with others, that possibly are less gracious, because of their greatness in this World.