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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.
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 ap••rance of God in our souls. And hence •is that he is called the Devil, the Ene••, the Destroyer, and him that seeks con••nually to devour us, 1 Pet. 5. 8.
I need say no more but this, He that •ill walk like a Christian indeed, as he •all find it is requisite, that he continue […] Good Works; so his continuing there••, will be opposed: if therefore he will continue therein, he must make it his puffiness, to study how to oppose those •at oppose such a life, that he may continue therein.