A30128:436
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.
This also brings to mind, how the case […] altered with thee, touching thy confidence in God for thy future happiness, •ow uncertain thou now art of thy hopes for Heaven, how much this life doth •ang in doubt before thee, Deut. 28. 65, 66.
This also brings to mind, how the case 〈…〉 altered with thee, touching thy confidence in God for thy future happiness, •ow uncertain thou now art of thy hopes for Heaven, how much this life doth •ang in doubt before thee, Deut. 28. 65, 66.
2. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent.] These are words well put together; for a solid considering of what I have lost in my declining, will provoke in my heart a sorrow and godly heaviness, whereby I shall be forced to bemoan my condition, and say, I will go and return to my first Husband, for then it was better with me than now, Hos. 2. 7.
And believe it, the reason of God's standing off from giving thee comfortable communion with himself, it is, that thou mightest first see the difference between sticking close to God, and forsaking of him; and next, that thou mightest indeed acknowledge thy offence, and seek his face, Hos. 5. 15