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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.
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 ma•y things, but observing nothing, Acts, […] 20, Isa. 42. 20. It is observable, that •er Christ had divided his hearers into ••u parts, he condemned three of them […] fruitless hearers, Luke, 8. 5, 6, 7, 8. •h! it is hard continuing believing, continuing loving, continuing resisting all ⟨p. 116⟩that opposeth: we are subject to be we• ry of well-doing, Gal. 6. 9. to pluck o• right eyes, to cut of right hands […] right feet, is no pleasant thing to fle•• and blood; and yet none but these sh•• have the Promise of Life, because no• but these will be found to have the effectual work of God's Grace in their soul• If ye continue in my Word, then are you […] Disciples [indeed] Mat. 18. 8, 9. & 24. […]