A30128:78
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.
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.
Thirdly, It must be, both rightly timed, and rightly placed.
Fourthly, It must be done, Willingly, cheerfully, &c.
Fourthly, It must be done, Willingly, chearfully, &c.
1. It must have the Word for its authority.
Zeal without knowledge, is like a mettled Horse without eyes, or like a sword in a mad-man's hand: and there is no knowledge where there is not the Word; For if they reject the Word of the Lord, and act not by that, What Wisdom is in them? saith the Prophet, Jer. 8. 9. Isa. 8. 20. Wherefore see thou have the Word for what thou dost.
Zeal without knowledge, is like a metled Horse without eyes, or like a sword in a mad-man's hand: and there is no knowledge where there is not the Word; For if they reject the Word of the Lord, and act not by that, What Wisdom is in them? saith the Prophet,