A30128:217
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.
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, Tit. 2. 5.
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, Tit. 2. 5.
2. Take heed of an idle, talking, o• brangling tongue. This also is odious either in maids or wives, to be like Pa• ra•s, not bridling their tongue; where ⟨p. 67⟩[…] the wife should know, as I said before, ••at her husband is her lord, and is over ••r as Christ is over the Church. Do you ••ink it is seemly for the Church to par•t it against her Husband? is she not […] be silent before him, and to look to his •aws rather than her own fictions? Why […], saith the Apostle, ought the wife to car•it towards her husband. Let the woman, •ith Paul, learn in silence with all subjecti••: but I suffer not a woman to teach, or to burp authority over the man, but to be in ence,