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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.
Answ. Indeed there are some wives • great slavery by reason of their ungodly husbands; and as such should be pit•ed and prayed for, so they should be •o much the more watchful and circumspect in all their ways.
Answ. Indeed there are some wives • great slavory by reason of their ungod•y husbands; and as such should be pit•ed and prayed for, so they should be •o much the more watchful and circum•pect in all their wayes.
1. Therefore be thou very faithful •o him in all the things of this life.
2. Bare with patience his unruly and unconverted behaviour: thou art alive; •e is dead: thou art principled with Grace; he with Sin. Now then, seeing Grace is stronger than Sin, and Ver••e than Vice, be not overcome with •is vileness, but overcome that with thy virtues, Rom. 12. 21. 'Tis a shame for ••ose that are gracious, to be as lavishing […] their words, &c. as those that are graceless. They that are slow to wrath, •re of great understanding: but they that re hasty in spirit, exalt folly,