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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.
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; 1 Cor. 11. 3. 1 Pet. 3. 6.
First, That she look upon him as her head and lord. The head of the woman is the man. And so Sara called Abraham Lord; 1 Cor. 11. 3. 1 Pet. 3. 6.
Secondly, She should therefore be subject to him as is fit in the Lord. The Apostle saith, That the Wife should submit her self to her Husband, as to the Lord, 1 Pet. 3. 1. Col. 3. 18. Ephes. 5. 22. I told you before, that if the husband doth walk towards his wife as becomes him, he will therein be such an ordinance of God to her, besides the relation of an husband, that shall preach to her the carriage of Christ to his Church. And now I say also, that the wife, if she walk with her husband as becomes her, she shall preach the Obedience of the Church to her husband. Therefore, as the Church is subject to Christ, ⟨p. 66⟩