A30128:214
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.
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⟩so let the wives be to their own husbands i• every thing, Ephes. 5. 24.
Now for thy performing of this work thou must first shun these evils.
1. The evil of a wandering and a go• sopping spirit: this is evil in the Church and is evil also in a wife, who is the figur• of a Church. Christ loveth to have hi• Spouse keep at home; that is, to be wit• him in the Faith and practice of hi• things, not ranging and meddling wit the things of Satan: no more should wives be given to wander and gossip a broad: You know that