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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. Let thy words be few.
2. And none of them savouring of a lording it over him, but speak thou still as to thy head and lord, by way of entreaty and beseeching.
2. And none of them savouring of a lording it over him, but speak thou still as to thy head and lord, by way of intreaty and beseeching.
3. And that in such a spirit of sympathy & bowels of affection after his good, that the manner of thy speech and behaviour in speaking, may be to him an argument that thou speakest in love, as being sensible of his misery, and inflamed in thy soul with desire after his conversion.
3. And that in such a spirit of simpathy & bowels of affection after his good, that the manner of thy speech and behaviour in speaking, may be to him an argument that thou speakest in love, as being sensible of his misery, and inflamed in thy soul with desire after his conversion.
4. And follow thy words and behaviours with Prayers to God for his soul.