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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.
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.
This the Apostle James writes against, Jam. 2. 1, 2, 3. under the name of partiality; for indeed the fruits of a puffed-up heart, is to deal in this manner with Christians, 1 Cor. 4. 6, 7.
Now this branch of Pride floweth from ignorance of the vanity of the creature, and of the worth of a gracious heart: Wherefore get more of the knowledge of these two, and this sprig will be nipped in the head, and you will learn to condescend to men of low degree, Rom. 12. 16.
Now this branch of Pride floweth from ignorance of the vanity of the creature, and of the worth of a gracious heart: Wherefore get more of the knowledge of these two, and this sprig will be nipt in the head, and you will learn to condescend to men of low degree, Rom. 12. 16.