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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 wife is master next her husband, and is to rule all in his absence; yea, in his presence she is to guide the house, to bring up the Children, provided she so […] it, as the adversary have no occasion […] speak reproachfully; 1 Tim. 5. 10, 13. […] Who can find a virtuous woman; for her price is far above Rubies. A gracious woman retaineth honour, and guideth her affairs with discretion, Prov. 31. 10. Prov. […], 16. Prov. 12. 4.
The wife is master next her husband, and is to rule all in his absence; yea, in his presence she is to guide the house, to bring up the Children, provided she so 〈…〉 it, as the adversary have no occasion 〈…〉 speak reproachfully; 1 Tim. 5. 10, 13. 〈…〉 Who can find a vertuous woman; for her price is far above Rubies. A gracious woman retaineth honour, and guideth her affaires with discretion, Prov. 31. 10. Prov. 〈…〉, 16. Prov. 12. 4.
Object. But my husband is an unbeliever, what shall I do?
Answ. If so then, what I have said before lieth upon thee with an engagement so much the stronger. For first, y husband being in this condition, he ll be watchful to take thy slips and inmities, to throw them as dirt in the e of God and thy Saviour, 2. He