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A30128	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.	Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.	1663 (1663)	Wing B5492; ESTC R14817	52,342	160

thee to have dominion over him but to be thy husband and to rule over thee 1 Tim. 2 12. 1 Cor. 1. 3 8. 3. Wherefore though in truth thou mayest have more discretion than he ye● thou oughtest to know that thou wit● all that is thine is to be used as under th● husband even every thing Ephes. 5. 24. Take heed therefore that what thou dost goes not in thy name but his not to thy exaltation but his carrying all things so by thy dexterity and prudence that not one of thy husbands weaknesses be discovered to others by thee A vertuous woman is a crown to her husband but she that causeth shame is as rottennes● to his bones For then as the Wise ma● saith She will do him good and not evil 〈◊〉 the dayes of her life Prov. 12. 4. Prov. 31. 14. 4. Therefore act and do still as being under the power and authority of th● husband Now touching thy carriage to thy Chi●●dren and Servants Thou art a Parent and a Mistris and so thou oughtest to demean thy self And besides seeing the believing woman is a figure of the Church she ought as the Church to nourish and instruct her Children and Servants as the Church that she may answer in that particular also and truly the wife being alwayes at home she hath great advantage that way wherefore do it and the Lord prosper your proceeding Of Children to Parents There lyeth also a Duty upon Children to their Parents which they are bound both by the Law of God and nature conscientiously to observe Children obey your Parents in the Lord for this is right And again Children obey your Parents in all things for this is well-pleasing to the Lord Ephes. 6. 1. Col. 3. 20. There are these general things in which Children should shew forth that honor that is due to their Parents from them First They should alwayes count them better than themselves I observe a vile spirit among some Children and that is they are apt to look over their Parents and to have slighting scornful thoughts of them this is worse than heathenish such a one hath got just the heart of a Dog or Beast that will bite those that begot them and her that brought them forth But my Father c. is now poor and I am rich and it will be a disparagement or at least an hindrance to me to show that respect to him as otherwise I might I tell thee thou arguest like an Atheist and a Beast and standest in this full flat against the Son of God Read Mark 7. 9 10 11 12 13. Must a gift and a little of the glory of the Butterfly make thee that thou shalt ●ot do for and honour to thy Father and Mother A wise man maketh a glad Fa●her but a foolish son despiseth his Mother Prov. 15. 20. Though thy Parents be ne●er so low and thou thy self never so ●igh yet he is thy Father and she thy Mother and they must be in thy eye i● great esteem The eye that mocketh at his Father and that despiseth to obey his mother the Ravens of the valley shall pick it out and the young Eagles shall eat it Prov. 30. 17. Secondly Thou oughtest to shew thy honour to thy Parents by a willingness to help them with such necessaries and accommodations which they need If any have Nephews or Children let them learn to shew pitty at home and to requite their parents saith Paul for that is good and acceptable before God 1 Tim. 5. 4. And this rule Joseph observed to his poor Father though he himself was next the King in Egypt Gen. 47. 12. Gen. 41. 39 40 41 42 43. But mark Let them requite their Parents There are three things for which as long as thou livest thou wilt be a debter to thy Parents 1. For thy Being in this World they are they from whom immediately under God thou didst receive it 2. For their care to preserve thee when thou wast helpless and couldst neither care for nor regard thy self 3. For the pains they have taken with thee to bring thee up Until thou hast Children of thy own thou wilt not be sensible of the pains watchings fears sorrow and affliction that they have gone under to bring thee up and when thou knowest it thou wilt not easily yeeld that thou hast recompenced them for their favour to thee How often have they sustained thy hunger cloathed thy nakedness what care have they taken that thou mightest have wherewith to live and do well when they were dead and gone they possibly have spared it from their own belly back for thee and have also impoverished themselves that thou mightest live like a man All these things ought duly and like a man to be considered by thee and care ought to be taken on thy part to requite them the Scripture saith so Reason saith so and there be none but Dogs and Beasts deny it It is the duty of Parents to lay up for their Children and the duty of Children to requite their Parents Thirdly Therefore shew by all humble and son-like carriage that thou dost to this day with thy heart remember the love of thy Parents Thus much for obedience to Parents in general Again if thy Parents be godly and thou wicked as thou art if thou hast not a second work or birth from God upon thee then thou art to consider that thou art more strongly ingaged to respect and honour thy Parents not now only as a father in the flesh but as godly Parents thy Father and Mother is now made of God thy teachers and instructers in the Way of righteousness Wherfore to alude to that of Solomon O Son hearken to the law of thy Father and forsake not the law of thy Mother bind them continually upon thy heart and ty them about thy neck Prov. 6. 20 21. Now to provoke thee here to consider First That this hath been the practice alwayes of those that are and have been obedient Children yea of Christ himself to Joseph and Mary though he himself was God blessed for ever Luke 2. 51. Secondly Thou hast also the severe Judgements of God upon those that have been disobedient to awe thee As 1. Ishmael for but mocking at one good carriage of his Father and Mother was both thrust out of his Fathers Inheritance and the Kingdom of Heaven and that with God's approbation Gen. 21. 8 9 10 11 12. Gal. 4. 30. 2. Hophni and P●hinehas for refusing the good counsel of their Father provoked the great God to be their enemy They hearkened not to the voice of their Father because the Lord would slay them 1 Sam. 2. 23 24 25. 3. Absolom was hanged as I may say by God himself for rebelling against his Father 2 Sam. 18. 9. Besides little dost thou know how heart-aking a consideration it is to thy Parents when they do but suppose thou mayest be damned how many prayers sighs tears are there wrung from their hearts upon

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 a Prisoner of Hope The Earth that drinketh in the Rain that cometh oft upon it and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed receiveth blessing from God But that which beareth Briers and Thorns is nigh unto cursing whose end is to be burned Heb. 6. 7 8. London Printed for F. Smith at the Elephant and Castle without Temple-Bar THE EPISTLE TO THE READER Courteous Reader HAving formerly writ some small matter touching the Doctrine of Faith as Justification by Grace through the Faith of Christs Blood c. I do here as the second to that Doctrine present thee with a few lines touching Good Works that I might as at first I shewed thee the Good and Glory of the one so now shew thee the Beauty and Excellency of the other For though we are justified Rom. 3. 24 c. freely by Grace through Christ before God yet we are justified before Men Jam. 2. 18. by our Works Nay a life of Holiness flowing from Faith in us that are saved by Grace it doth justifie that Grace before the World that justifies us before God 2 Cor. 6. 1 3. 2 Cor. 9. 12 13 1 Pet. 2. 11 12. I have not here only in general treated of this Doctrine of Good Works but particularly after some discourse about Works flowing from Faith and what makes it truly and gospelly Good I discourse of them as we stand under our several relations in this World among men As first The Duty of the Master of a Family Of the Husband to his Wife and of hers to him Of the Duty of Parents to their Children and of Children to their Parents Of Masters also to their Servants and of the Servant again to his Master with a brief touch upon Good Neighbourhood and a discovery of Covetousness Pride and Uncleanness which are great Obstructions to a truly Gospel-Conversation I know there are many that have treated of Good Works in large and learned Discourses but I doubt all have not so Gospelized their discourses as become them and as the Doctrine of the Grace of God calleth for However I thoughtit my duty to add this discourse to all that are past and that for these Reasons First to take away those Aspersions that the Adversaries cast upon our Doctrine Rom. 3. 8. as also in the dayes of Paul that because we preach Justification without the Works of the Law therefore they pretend we plead for loosness of life whose damnati●s just Secondly Because though there be much discourse about Works in general yet a particular Discourse of them as afore is touched is too much neglected and by this means every one too much left at uncertainties as from them of their several works under their particular Relations which I think is one reason of that disorder in Families and Places where God's People live to their shame and the dishonour of their God Thirdly Because these few Books that do particularly treat thus of Good Works are I think now so scarce or so big that but few have them and few buy them if they may be had especially our new Converts for whose sakes principally this short Discourse is intended and indeed this is one reason of my brevity that the price might neither be burdensome nor the reading long and tedious Multitude of words drown the Memory and an Exhortation in few words may yet be so full that the Reader may find that in the side of a sheet which some are forced to hunt for in a whole Quire c. The Lord teach us this Wisdom Fourthly I have written this Book to shew that I bear a fellow-Testimony and Witness with all that know God of the Operation that Grace hath and will have in the heart that hath savingly received it Lastly I have thus written because it is amiable and pleasant to God when Christians keep their Rank Relation and Station doing all as become their Quality Calling When Christians stand every one in their places and do the work of their Relations then they are like the flowers in the Garden that stand and grow where the Gardner hath planted them and then they shall both honour the Garden in which they are planted and the Gardner that hath so disposed of them From the Hysop on the Wall to the Cedar in Lebanon their Fruit is their glory And seeing the stock into which we are planted is the fruitfullest stock the sap conveyed thereout the fruitfullest sap and the dresser of our souls the wisest Husbandman John 15. 1. How contrary to nature to example and expectation should we be if we should not be rich in Good Works Wherefore take heed of being painted fire wherein is no warmth and painted flowers which retain no smell and of being painted trees whereon i● no fruit Whoso boasteth himself o● a false gift is like Clouds and Wind without Rain Prov. 25. 14. Farewel The Lord be with thy Spirit tha● thou mayest profit for time to come J. BUNYAN Christian Behaviour OR The Fruits of true Christianity Tit. 3. 7 8. That being justified by his Grace we should be made Heirs according to the hope of Eternal Life This is a faithful Saying and these things I will that you affirm constantly that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good Works These things are good and profitable unto men I Shall not at this time discourse of every Particular at large included in these words but shall briefly fall upon those things that I judge most necessary for the People of God Neither shall I need to make any great preamble to the words for their Explication they themselves being plain and without tha● ambiguity that calleth for such a thing the general scop being this That the which have believed in God should be care●ful to maintain Good Works But yet to prosecute what I inten● with what clearness I may I shall in 〈◊〉 word or two make way for what is to be the main of this Book This is a Faithful Saying This Which Why that which goeth before namely That being justified by Grace w● should be made Heirs according to the hop● of Eternal Life This is a faithful saying and these things I will that thou affirm con●stantly Why so Why that they which have believed i● God might be careful to maintain Goo● Works The meaning is That the way to provoke others to Good Works is constant●ly in the evidence and demonstratio● of the Spirit to shew them the certainty of their being by Grace made Heirs of Eternal Life From this Scripture therefore I do gather these things observable First That Good Works do flow from Faith Yea Secondly That every one that believeth should be careful that their