A30128:82
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.
2. As there must be the Word for the authorizing of what thou dost, so there must be Faith, from which it must flow, as I showed you before: For whatever is not of faith is sin: and without faith, it is impossible to please God. Now I say, without the Word there is no Faith; Rom. ⟨p. 31⟩10. 17. As without Faith there is no good, let mens pretences be what they will.
2. As there must be the Word for the authorizing of what thou dost, so there must be Faith, from which it must flow, as I shewed you before: For whatever is not of faith is sin: and without faith, it is impossible to please God. Now I say, without the Word there is no Faith; Rom. ⟨p. 31⟩10. 17. As without Faith there is no good, let mens pretences be what they will.
3. As it must have these two afore-named, so also it must have, first, right Time, and secondly, right Place.
1. It must be rightly timed: Every work is not to be done at the same time, every time not being convenient for such a work: There is a time for all things; and every thing is beautiful in its time, Eccles. 31. 11. There is a time to pray, a time to hear; a time to read, a time to confer; a time to meditate; a time to do, and a time to suffer. Now, to be hearing when we should be preaching, and doing, that is, yielding active obedience to that under which we ought to suffer, is not good. Christ was very wary, that both his doings and sufferings were rightly timed,