A30128:402
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.
Secondly, That therefore every Promise in the Bible is thine, to strengthen, quicken, and encourage thy heart in believing.
Secondly, That therefore every Promise in the Bible is thine, to strengthen, quicken, and incourage thy heart in believing.
Thirdly, Consider that there is nothing that thou dost, can so please God as believing: The Lord takes pleasure in tho• that fear him, in them that hope in his me• cy, Psal. 147. 11.
They please him, because they embrace his Righteousness, &c.
They please him, because they imbrac• his Righteousness, &c.
Fourthly, Consider that all the with drawings of God from thee, are not f•• the weakening, but for the trial of th faith; and also, that what-ever he su feareth Satan, or thy own heart, to do, […] is not to weaken Faith,