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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.
4. Take fit opportunities to convince her; observe her disposition, and when she is most likely to bear, then speak to her very heart.
5. When thou speakest, speak to purpose; 'tis no matter for many words, provided they be pertinent. Job in a few words answers his Wife, and takes her off from her foolish talking; Thou speakest, saith he, like one of the foolish women; shall we receive good at the hands of God, and shall we not receive evil? Job 2. 10.
6. Let all be done without rancour, or the least appearance of anger; With meekness instruct those that oppose themselves, if peradventure they may recover themselves out of the snare of the Devil, who are taken captive by him at his will, 2 Tim. 2. 25, 26.
6. Let all be done without rancor, or the least appearance of anger; With meekness instruct those that oppose themselves, if peradventure they may recover themselves out of the snare of the Devil, who are taken captive by him at his will, 2 Tim. 2. 25, 26.