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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. › The Third Observation.
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.
The Third Observation.
Every Believer should not only take ••ed that their works be good, and so for […] present do them, but should careful•• study to maintain them; that is, to ••ep in a continual exercise of them.
Every Believer should not only take ••ed that their works be good, and so for 〈…〉 present do them, but should careful•• study to maintain them; that is, to ••ep in a continual exercise of them.
It is an easier matter to begin to do •od, than it is to continue therein: and […] reason is, there is not so much of […] Christians cross in the beginning of a •ork, as there is in a continual, hearty, conscientious practice thereof. There•••e Christians have need, as to be pres••• to do good, so to continue the work; •an by nature, is rather a hearer than a •er, Athenian like, continually listing after some new thing; seeing may things, but observing nothing, Acts, […] 20,