A30128:424
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.
Moses counted the reward that he was to have, for a short suffering with the People of God, of greater worth, than the Treasures of Egypt, the smiles of the King, or the honour of his Kingdom, Heb. 11. 25, 26, 27.
In a word,1 Let the disappointments that do and shall most surely befall the fruitless Professors, provoke thee to look with all diligence to thy standing.
In a word,1 Let the disappointments that do and shall most surely befal the fruitless Professors, provoke thee to look with all diligence to thy standing.
- 1The fruitless Professor must meet with disappointments.
For First, Such a one is but deceived and disappointed touching the Work of Grace he supposeth to be in his heart, he thinks he is a Christian, and hath Grace, ⟨p. 130⟩as Faith, Hope, and the like, in his soul, yet no fruits of these things manifest themselves in him; indeed his tongue is tipped with a talk and tattle of Religion; poor man, poor empty man! faith without works is dead; thy hope shall be as the giving up of the Ghost; thy gifts with which thy soul is possessed, are but such as are common to Reprobates; thou art therefore disappointed, God reputeth thee still but wicked, though thou comest and goest to the place of the Holy,