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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
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Thus is Faith a prevailing argument to the sinner, whereby he is fetched off ⟨p. 19⟩•rom what he was, and constrained to •end and yield to what before it neither would nor could, 1 Cor. 2. 14. Rom. 8. •.
Thus is Faith a prevailing argument to the sinner, whereby he is fetched off ⟨p. 19⟩•rom what he was, and constrained to •end and yeeld to what before it neither would nor could, 1 Cor. 2. 14. Rom. 8. •.
And hence it is, that Gospel-obedience is called the Obedience of Faith, as well as obedience to the Faith, (Rom. 16. 26. For it must be by the Faith of Christ in my heart, that I submit to the Word of Faith in the Bible, otherwise •ll is to no profit, as saith the Apostle▪ The Word preached did not profit them, it not being mixed with Faith in them that heard it (Heb. 4. 2.) For Faith alone can see the reality of what the Gospel saith; and so I say, argue over the heart to the embracing of it.