A30128:433
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. › Answer.
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.
Answer.
If this be true, thy case is sad, thou art to be pitied, the Lord pity thee; •nd for thy recovery out of this condition, I would give thee no other counsel than was given to Ephesus, when she •ad lost her first Love; Remember, •aith Christ, from whence thou art fallen, •nd repent, and do thy first Works, &c. Rev. 2.5.
If this be true, thy case is sad, thou art to be pittied, the Lord pitty thee; •nd for thy recovery out of this condi•ion, I would give thee no other counsel than was given to Ephesus, when she •ad lost her first Love; Remember, •aith Christ, from whence thou art fallen, •nd repent, and do thy first Works, &c. Rev. 2.5.
Mark: Thy first Works, is, to enter into a serious considering and remembrance from whence thou art fallen: ⟨p. 130⟩[…] ⟨p. 131⟩[…] ⟨p. 132⟩