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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.
But I say, where the work of God […] deed is savingly begun, even there ⟨p. 117⟩[…], corruption, and the body of death oppose it: Therefore should Christians take heed, and look that against these ••posites, they maintain a continual ••urse of Good Works among men.
But I say, where the work of God 〈…〉 deed is savingly begun, even there ⟨p. 117⟩〈…〉, corruption, and the body of death •oppose it: Therefore should Christi••s take heed, and look that against these ••posites, they maintain a continual ••urse of Good Works among men.
Besides, as there is that in our own ••wels that opposeth goodness, so there is […] Tempter, the wicked one, both to ••imate these lusts, and to join with ••em in every assault against every appearance of God in our souls. And hence •is that he is called the Devil, the Ene••, the Destroyer, and him that seeks continually to devour us, 1 Pet. 5. 8.
Besides, as there is that in our own ••wels that opposeth goodness, so there is Tempter, the wicked one, both to imate these lusts, and to joyn with em in every assault against every aprance of God in our souls. And hence is that he is called the Devil, the Ene, the Destroyer, and him that seeks connually to devour us,