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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.
Secondly, Thou oughtest to love he under a double consideration; 1. As sh• is thy flesh and thy bone (For •ev•• [Man] yet hated his own flesh, Ephes. 5• 29.) 2. As she is together with thee a• heir of the Grace of Life, 1 Pet. 3. • This I say, should engage thee to lov• her with Christian Love; to love her as believing you both are dearly belov• of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, an• ⟨p. 51⟩as those that must be together with him in Eternal happiness.
Thirdly, Thou oughtest so to carry thy self to, and before her, as doth Christ, to, and before his Church; as saith the Apostle, So ought men to love their wives, even as Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for it, Ephes. 5. 25. When husbands behave themselves like husbands indeed, then will they be not only husbands, but such an Ordinance of God to the wife, as will preach to her the carriage of Christ to his Spouse. There is a sweet scent wrapped up in the relations of husbands and wives (Ephes. 5. 32.) that believe. The wife, I say, signifying the Church, and the husband the head and saviour thereof; Ephes. 5. 23. For the husband is the head of the wife, even a Christ is the head of the Church; and He is the Saviour of the body.