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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.
3. If thou deny to do that good which thou oughtest, with what thy God […] given thee; then consider, that though• […] love thy soul, yet he can chastise; […] thy•inward man with such troubles, […] thy life shall be restless and comfort•• 2dly. And can also so blow upon thy […] ward man, that all thou gettest, sh•• put in a Bag with holes, Psal. 89. 31,•• 33. Hag. 1. 6.
3. If thou deny to do that good whic• thou oughtest, with what thy God 〈…〉 given thee; then consider, that though• 〈…〉 love thy soul, yet he can chastise; 〈…〉 thy•inward man with such troubles, 〈…〉 thy life shall be restless and comfort•• 2dly. And can also so blow upon thy 〈…〉 ward man, that all thou gettest, sh•• put in a Bag with holes, Psal. 89. 31,•• 33. Hag. 1. 6.
And set the case he should license but one Thief among thy Substance, or one spark of Fire among thy Barns, how quickly might that be spent ill, and against thy will, which thou shouldst have spent to God's glory, and with thy will? and I tell thee further, that if thou want a heart to do good when thou hast about thee, thou mayest want comfort in such things thy self from others, when thine is taken from thee. See