A30128:143
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.
Christian Behaviour; OR, The Fruits of true Christianity. › Touching the Master of a Family.
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.
Rule thy own house well, having thy Children (with others in thy Family) in subjection with all gravity, 1 Tim. 3. 4.
Solomon was so excellent (sometimes) this way, that he made the eyes of his beholders to dazzle, 2 Chron. 9. 3, 4.
But to break off from this general and to come to particulars.
First, Hast thou a Wife? thou mu•• consider how thou oughtest to behave th• self under that relation: And to do this • right, thou must consider the condition […] thy wife, whether she be one that indeed believeth, or not: • she believeth,1 The• First, Thou art engged to bless God fo her, For her price is far above Rubies, an she is the Gift of God unto thee, and is f thy adorning and glory,