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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.
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, 2 Cor. 4. 17.
I tell thee Christian, be but rich in Good Works, and thou shalt have more then Salvation; thy Salvation thou hast freely by Grace through Christ, without ⟨p. 129⟩works, Ephes. 2. 8, 9, 10. but now being justified and saved, and as the fruits hereof, reviewed by the holy Ghost; after this, I say, thou shalt be rewarded for every work that proves good; For God is not unrighteous to forget your works and labour of love, which you have showed to his Name, in that you have ministered to his Saints, and do minister, Heb. 6. 10. 1 Cor. 3. 14.
I tell thee Christian, be but rich in Good Works, and thou shalt have more then Salvation; thy Salvation thou hast freely by Grace through Christ, without ⟨p. 129⟩works, Ephes. 2. 8, 9, 10. but now being justified and saved, and as the fruits hereof, reviewed by the holy Ghost; after this, I say, thou shalt be rewarded for every work that proves good; For God is not unrighteous to forget your works and labour of love, which you have shewed to his Name, in that you have ministred to his Saints, and do minister,