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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.
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, 1 Pet. 3. 7.
In a word, be such a Husband to thy believing Wife, that she may say, God hath not only given me a husband, but such ⟨p. 53⟩a Husband, as preacheth to me every day the Carriage of Christ to his Church.
2. If thy Wife be unbelieving or carnal,