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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.
7. The Man who is fullest of Good Works, he is fittest to live, and fittest to die: I am now (at any time) ready to be offered up, saith fruitful Paul, 2 Tim. 4. 6. Whereas he that is barren, he is neither ⟨p. 128⟩fit to live, nor fit to dye: to dye, he himself is convinced he is not fit; and to live, God himself saith he is not fit; Cut him down, why doth he cumber the ground? Luke 13. 7.
Lastly, Consider, to provoke thee to Good Works, thou shalt have of God, when thou comest to Glory, a reward for every thing thou dost for him on Earth. Little do the People of God consider, how richly God will reward, what from a right principle, and to a right end, is done for Him here; not a bit of bread to the poor, nor a draught of water to the meanest of them that belong to Christ, or the loss of a hair of your head, shall in that day go without its reward, Luke 14. 13, 14. Mat. 10. 42.
For this light affliction (and so all other pieces of self-denial) which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory, 2 Cor. 4. 17.
For this light affliction (and so all other pieces of self-denyal) which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory,