A30128:48
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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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.
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 imbracing of it.
4. Faith is such a Grace, as will represent to the soul all things in their proper colours: it doth not (as doth unbelief and ignorance) show us all things out of order, putting darkness for light, and bitter for sweet, but will set every thing in his proper place before our eyes, God and Christ shall be with it, the chiefest good, the most lovely and amiable; a ⟨p. 20⟩Heavenly Life shall be of greater esteem and more desirable, than all the treasures of Egypt: Righteousness & Sanctification will be the thing after which […] will most vehemently press, because […] seeth not only Death and Damnation, […] the fruits of sin, but sin also in it sel distinct from the punishment belonging to it, a detestable, horrible, and odious thing,