A30128:223
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.
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 in•mities, to throw them as dirt in the ••e of God and thy Saviour, 2. He ⟨p. 70⟩will be apt to make the worst of […] one of thy words, carriages and gesture 3. And all this doth tend to the po•••sing his heart with more hardness, p•••dice, and opposition to his own salv•••on. Wherefore, as Peter saith, ye w••• be in subjection to your own husbands; […] if any obey not the word, they may also w•••out the word be won by the conversati•• the wives, while they behold your c••• conversation coupled with fear, 1 Pet. 3•• 2. Thy husbands salvation or dam•••tion lieth much in thy deportment•• behaviour before him: wherefore if th•• be in thee any fear of God, or love thy husband, seek, by a carriage full• meekness, modesty, holiness, and a humble behaviour before him, to win him the love of his own salvation; and thus doing, how knowest thou, O wom•• but thou shalt save thy husband, 1 Cor. 16.