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A30153
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A holy life, the beauty of Christianity, or, An exhortation to Christians to be holy by John Bunyan.
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Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.
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1684
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Wing B5537; ESTC R30867
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follow the apish fashions of the world hath the God oâ— wisdom set them on foot among us or is it because the Devil and wicked men the inventors of these vain toyes have out-witted the law of God What Nation is there so great who hath God so nigh unto them as his people have and as he is in all things that we call upon him for and what Nation is there so great that hath Statutes and Judgments so righteous as all this law said Moses which I set before you this day This then is that which declareth us to be godly-wise when we keep our soul diligently to the holy words of God and sit not only our tongues and lips but also our lives thereto Fourthly But again let them that name the name of Christ depart from the iniquity that is as I may call it from family-iniquity There is an house-iniquity an iniquity that loves not to walk abroad but to harbor within doors This the holy man David was aware of therefore he said that he would behave himself wisely in a perfect way yea saith he I will walk within my house with a perfect heart Now this house-iniquity standeth in these things 1. In Domâ—stick broyls and quarrels 2. In Domestick Chambrings and wantonness 3. In Domestick misorders of Children and Servants First For house broyles and quarrels it is an iniquity to be departed from whether it be betwixt Husband and Wife or otherwise This as I said is an iniquity that loves not to walk abroad but yet it is an horrible plague within doors And many that shew like Saints abroad yet act the part of Devils when they are at home by giving way to this house iniquity by cherishing of this house-iniquity This iniquity meeteth the man and his wife at the very threshold of the door and will not suffer them to enter no not with one foot into the house in peace but how far this is from walking together as heirs of the grace of life is easie to be determined Men should carry it in love to their wives as Christ doth to his Church and wives should carry it to their husbands as the Church ought to carry it to her Saviour and untill each relation be managed with respect to these things this house-iniquity will be cherished there O! God sees within doors as well as without and will judge too for the iniquity of the house as well as for that more open 2 dly As house-iniquity standeth in domestick broyls and Contentions So it also standeth in Chambrings and wantonness Wherefore the Apostle puteth them both together saying not in chambring and wanness not in strife and envy This chambring and wantonness is of a more genneral extent being entertained by all insomuch that sometimes from the head to the foot all are horribly guilty But it is a shame to speak of those things that are done of some in secret For through the lusts of their own hearts they dishonour their own bodies between themselves working that which is unseemly to their ignominy and contempt if not with their fellows yet with God who sees them for the darkness hideth not from him It was for this kind of iniquity with other that God told Ely that he would judge his house for ever also the words that follow are to be trembled at that say The iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever Such an evil thing is house-iniquity in the eyes of the God that is above Thirdly As domestick iniquity standeth in these so also in the disorders of children and servants Childrens unlawful carriages to their Parents is a great house iniquity yea and a common one too Disobedience to Parents is one of the sins of the last days O! 'T is horrible to behold how irreverently how irrespectively how sawcily and malapertly children yea professing children at this day carry it to their Parents Snapping and checking curbing and rebuking of them as if they had never received their beings by them or had never been beholding to them for bringing of them up yea as if the relation was lost or as if they had received a dispensation from God to dishonour and disobey Parents I will add that this sin reigns in little and great for not only the small and young but men are disobedient to their Parents and indeed this is the sin with a shame that men shall be disobedient to Parents the sin of the last times that men shall be disobedient to Parents and without natural affection Where now adays shall we see children that are come to men and womens estate carry it as by the word they are bound to their aged and worn-out Pâ—rents I say where is the honour they should put upon them who speaks to their aged Parents with that due regard to that relalation to their age to their worn-out condition as becomes them Is it not common now adays for Parents to be brought into bondage and servitude by their children For Parents to be under and children above for Parents to be debased and children to Lord it over them Nor doth this sin go alone in the families where it is no those men are lovers of their own selves Covetous Boasters proud Blaspheemers that are disobedient to their Parents This is that the Prophet means when he saith the child shall behave himself proudly aginst the antient and the base against the honourable This is a common sin and a crying sin and to their shame be it spoken that are guilty a sin that makes men vile to an high degree and yet it is the sin of professors But behold how the Apostle brands them he saith such have but a form of godliness and deny the power thereof and bids the godly shut them out of their fellowship This sin also is I fear grown to such a hight in some as to make them weary of their Parents and of doing their duty to them Yea I wish that some are not murtherers of Fathers and Mothers by their thoughts while they secretly long after and desire their death that the inheritance may be theirs and that they may be delivered from obedience to their Parents This is a sin in the house in the family a sin that is kept in hugger mugger close but God sees it and hath declared his dislike against it by an implicit threatning to cut them off that are guilty of it Let them then that name the name of Christ depart from this iniquity Disorders of Servants is also an house-iniquity and to be departed from by the godly He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house said David and he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight One of the rarities in Solomons house and which the Queen of Sheba was so taken with was the goodly order of his Servants Some of the disorders of Servants are to be imputed to