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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. › Conclusion: To Conclude.
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, Remember, that thou• God doth sometimes, yea, ofte• receive Backsliders, yet it is n• always so: Some draw back […] ⟨p. 139⟩perdition, for because they have •ung up God, and would none of •im, he in Justice flings up them •nd their Souls for ever, Prov. 1. 24, •5, 26, 27, 28.
Secondly, Remember, that thou• God doth sometimes, yea, ofte• receive Backsliders, yet it is n• alwayes so: Some draw back 〈…〉 ⟨p. 139⟩•erdition, for because they have •ung up God, and would none of •im, he in Justice flings up them •nd their Souls for ever, Prov. 1. 24, •5, 26, 27, 28.
I have observed, that sometimes God, as it were in revenge for in•ry done him, doth snatch away •oules in the very nick of their backsliding; as he served Lot's ife when he turned her into a Pillar of Salt, even while she was oking over her shoulder to Soom,