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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.
4. And follow thy words and behaviours with Prayers to God for his soul.
5. Still keeping thy self in a holy, chaste and modest behaviour before him.
Object. But my husband is a sot, a fool, and one that hath not wit enough to follow his outward employment in the world.
Object. But my husband is a sot, a fool, and one that hath not wit enough to follow his outward imployment in the world.
Answ. First, though all this be true, yet thou must know he is, thy head, thy lord, and thy husband.
2. Therefore thou must take heed of desiring to usurp authority over him, he ⟨p. 74⟩