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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.
Secondly, Therefore all thy joy and comfort must needs fall short of saving comfort, and so leave thee in the su•• notwithstanding; thy joy is the joy […] the * Pharisees, and thy gladness as th•• of * Herod; and the longest time it can last, it is but a Scripture * moment * Joh. 5. 33. * Mark 6. 20. * Job 20. 5. Alas, in all thy gladness and content with thy Religion, thou art but like the Boy that plays with Brass instead of Gold; and with Counters instead of that which will go for currant Coin: Thus, if a man think ⟨p. 131⟩himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth or disappoints himself, Gal. 6. 3.
Secondly, Therefore all thy joy and comfort must needs fall short of saving comfort, and so leave thee in the su•• notwithstanding; thy joy is the joy 〈…〉 the * Pharisees, and thy gladness as th•• of * Herod; and the longest time it can last, it is but a Scripture * moment * Joh. 5. 33. * Mark 6. 20. * Job 20. 5. Alas, in all thy gladness and content with thy Religion, thou art but like the Boy that plays with Brass instead of Gold; and with Counters instead of that which will go for currant Coin: Thus, if a man think ⟨p. 131⟩himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth or disappoints himself, Gal. 6. 3.