A30128:156
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.
Now, to qualify thee for a Carriage suitable,
Now, to qualifie thee for a Carriage suitable,
1. Labour seriously after a sense of her miserable state, that thy bowels may yearn towards her soul.
2. Beware that she take no occasion from any unseemly carriage of thine, to proceed in evil; and here thou hast need to double thy diligence, for she lieth in thy bosom, and therefore is capable of espying the least miscarriage in thee.
2. Beware that she take no occasion from any unseemly carriage of thine, to proceed in evil; and here thou hast need to double thy diligence, for she lieth in thy bosome, and therefore is capable of espying the least miscarriage in thee.
3. If she behave her self unseemly and unruly, as she is subject to do, being Christless & Graceless, then labour thou to overcome her Evil with thy Goodness, her Frowardness with thy Patience and Meekness: it is a shame for thee who hast an other principle, to do as she.