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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. › Of Neighbours each to other.
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.
Now then, before I go any further, I will hear take an occasion to touch a little upon those sins that are so rife in many Professors in this day; and they ••re Covetousness, Pride, and Uncleanness; […] would speak a word to them in this place the rather, because they are they which spoil both Christian Brother-•ood, and civil Neighbourhood, in too •reat a measure.
Now then, before I go any further, I will hear take an occasion to touch a little upon those sins that are so rife in many Professors in this day; and they ••re Covetousness, Pride, and Uncleanness; 〈…〉 would speak a word to them in this place the rather, because they are they which spoile both Christian Brother-•ood, and civil Neighbourhood, in too •reat a measure.
First for Covetousness.
1. Covetousness, it is all one wi•• Desire; he that desires, covets, wh• there the thing he desires be evil […] good. Wherefore that which is called coveting in Exod. 20. 17. is called desire in Deut. 5. 21. As the Apostle also saith, I had not known lust, except the Law had said, Thou shalt not covet,