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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. 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⟩was not made for thee; that is, for thee to have dominion over him, but to be thy husband, and to rule over thee, 1 Tim. 2▪ 12. 1 Cor. 1. 3, 8.
3. Wherefore, though in truth thou mayest have more discretion than he, ye• thou oughtest to know, that thou wit• all that is thine, is to be used as under th• husband, even every thing, Ephes. 5. 24.