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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 Doctrine of the Gospel is like the […], and the small Rain, that distilleth •n the tender grass, wherewith it doth Irish, and is kept green, Deut. 32. 1• Christians are like the several flowers […] Garden, that have upon each of them […] Dew of Heaven, which being sha•• with the Wind, they let fall their […] at each others roots, whereby they […] jointly nourished, and become nou•ers of one another.
The Doctrine of the Gospel is like the 〈…〉, and the small Rain, that distilleth •n the tender grass, wherewith it doth •rish, and is kept green, Deut. 32. 1• Christians are like the several flowers 〈…〉 Garden, that have upon each of them 〈…〉 Dew of Heaven, which being sha•• with the Wind, they let fall their 〈…〉 at each others roots, whereby they 〈…〉 joyntly nourished, and become nou•ers of one another.
For Christians to commune savourily of […]'s matters one with another, it is as •hey opened to each others Nostrils ••es of perfume. Saith Paul to the ••rch at Rome, I long to see you, that I […] impart unto you some spiritual Gift, to nd you may be established; that is, that […] be comforted together with you, by the al Faith both of you and me, Rom 1. 2.