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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.
Wherefore that husband that carrieth it undiscreetly toward his wife, he doth not only behave himself contrary to the Rule, but also maketh his Wife lose the benefit of such an Ordinance, and crosseth the mystery of this Relation. Therefore, I say, So ought men to love their Wives as their own bodies: He that loveth his Wife, loveth himself; for no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, 1even as the Lord the Church, Ephes. 5. 28, 29.
- 1Christ laid out his life for his Church; covereth her infirmities; communicates to her his Wisdom, protecteth her, and helpeth he in her employments in this world: and so ought men to do for their Wives.Christ laid out his life for his Church; covereth her infirmities; communicates to her his Wisdom, protecteth her, and helpeth he in her imployments in this world: and so ought men to do for their Wives.
Solomon, and Pharaoh's Daughter, had the art of thus doing, as you may see in the Book of Canticles.
Wherefore bear with their weaknesses, help their infirmities, and honour them as the weaker vessels, and as being of a frailer constitution, 1 Pet. 3. 7.
Wherefore bear with their weaknesses, help their infirmities, and honor them as the weaker vessels, and as being of a frailer constitution,