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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.
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 Prov. 7. 11. saith She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide n• in her house.
1. The evil of a wandering and a go• soping 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 medling wit• the things of Satan: no more should wives be given to wander and gossop a broad: You know that Prov. 7. 11. saith She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide n• in her house.
Wives should be about their own husbands business at home: As the Apostl• saith, Let them be discreet, chaste, keepers a home, good, obedient to their own husbands And why? because otherwise the Word […] God will be blasphemed,