A30128:73
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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Again, they have persecuted men even to strange Cities; have laid traps and snares in every corner to entrap and to entangle their Words; and if they could at any time but kill the Persons that dissented from them, they would think they did God good service, Acts 26. 11. Luke 11. 53, 54. John. 16. 1, 2. But what need we look so far from home, (were it not that I would seal my Sayings with Truth) we need look no further to affirm this position, than to the Papists and their Companions: How many have they in all ages hanged, burned, starved, drowned, wracked, dismembered and murdered, both openly and in secret? and all under a pretence of God, his Worship, and Good Works.
Again, they have persecuted men even to strange Cities; have laid traps and snares in every corner to intrap and to intangle their Words; and if they could at any time but kill the Persons that dissented from them, they would think they did God good service, Acts 26. 11. Luke 11. 53, 54. John. 16. 1, 2. But what need we look so far from home, (were it not that I would seal my Sayings with Truth) we need look no further to affirm this position, than to the Papists and their Companions: How many have they in all ages hanged, burned, starved, drowned, wracked, dismembred and murdered, both openly and in secret? and all under a pretence of God, his Worship, and Good Works.
Thus you see how both Wise men and Fools, Saints and Sinners, Christians and Heathens, have erred in the business of Good Works; Wherefore every one should be careful to see that their works be good.