I recently stumbled across John Bunyan’s little booklet, “Questions About the Nature and perpetuity of the Seventh-Day Sabbath,” a fascinating insight into Bunyan’s views on Covenant Theology and the continuation (or not) of the Mosaic Law. The booklet is written with the purpose of refuting the “Seventh-Day Baptists”—Baptists who had apparently taken to the belief that it was necessary to…
Category: Old Wisdom
Duty of Parents to Children
Part Two of Julie attempting to make the Puritans more accessible to other sleepy mommies. (See Duty to Wives for a much wordier prelude.) This is another piece from John Bunyan’s Christian Behavior. If you are a parent—a father, or a mother—then you must consider your calling as a believer in light of that fact. Your children have souls, and…
The Duty of Wives
John Bunyan’s Christian Behavior is a marvelously useful little work. Unfortunately, it is also hundreds of years old and difficult to read. Here I attempt to modernize the most immediately relevant part, and I hope to continue and add on some of the other parts. I have had to add phrases here and there and try to simplify some things,…