A30128:85
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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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 things must have their right time, so they must be rightly placed; for the misplacing of any work, is as bad as the mis-timing of it.
When I say, things, if good, must be rightly placed, I mean, we should not give to any work more than the Word of God alloweth it; neither should we give it less: Mint, Anise, and Cummin, are not so weighty matters, as Faith and the Love of God, as in Mat. 23. 23. For a Pastor to be exercising the office of a Deacon instead of the office of a Pastor, it is misplacing of works, Acts 6. 2. For Martha to be making outward provision for Christ, when she should have sate at his feet to hear his Word, was the mis-placing a work; and for her sister to have done it at her request, (though the thing in it self was good) had been her sin also, Luke 10. 39, 40, 41, 42.
Now, to prevent the misplacing of Good Works, observe,