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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. › The Duty of Wives.
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.
The Duty of Wives.
But passing the Master of the Family I shall speak a Word or two to those that are under him.
And first to the Wife; The Wife i• bound by the Law to her Husband, so ⟨p. 65⟩long as her Husband liveth, Rom. 7. 2. Wherefore she also hath her work and place in the family, as well as the rest.
Now there are these things considerable in the carriage of a Wife toward her Husband, which she ought conscientiously to observe.
First, That she look upon him as her head and lord. The head of the woman is the man. And so Sarah called Abraham Lord;