A30128:390
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.
Now then to help in this, here fitly ••mes in the last Observation; to wit, […] That the best way both to provoke our ⟨p. 118⟩selves and others to Good Works, it […] be often affirming to others, The Doc••• of Justification by Grace, and to believ• our selves. This is a faithful Saying […] these things I will that thou affirm const•••ly, that those which have believed in […] might be careful to maintain Good Work••
Now then to help in this, here fitly ••mes in the last Observation; to wit, 〈…〉 That the best way both to provoke our ⟨p. 118⟩selves and others to Good Works, it 〈…〉 be often affirming to others, The Doc••• of Justification by Grace, and to believ• our selves. This is a faithful Saying 〈…〉 these things I will that thou affirm const•••ly, that those which have believed in 〈…〉 might be careful to maintain Good Work••
I told you before, that Good Works […] flow from Faith: and now I tell […] that the best way to be fruitful in th•• is to be much in the exercise of the •••ctrine of Justification by Grace; and […] both agree: for as Faith animate Good Works, so the Doctrine of Grace mates Faith: Wherefore, the way t rich in Good Works, it is to be ric Faith; and the way to be rich in Fa is to be conscientiously affirming the ctrine of Grace to others, and believing […] our selves.