A30128:153
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.
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,1 then thou hast also a duty lying before thee, which thou art engaged to perform under a double engagement. 1. For that she lieth liable every moment to eternal Damnation. 2. That she is thy Wife that is in this evil case.
2. If thy Wife be unbelieving or carnal,1 then thou hast also a duty lying before thee, which thou art ingaged to perform under a double ingagement. 1. For that she lyeth liable every moment to eternal Damnation. 2. That she is thy Wife that is in this evil case.
- 1The duty of Husbands to unbelieving Wives.
Oh! how little sense of the worth of Souls is there in the hearts of some Husbands, as is manifest by their unchristian carriage, to, and before their Wives.