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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.
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, Rom. 7. 7. that is, I had not known lust to be a sin, unless the Law had forbid it. Wherefore, though lawful desires are good▪ 1 Cor. 12. 31. and to be commended yet Covetousness, as commonly understood▪ is to be fled from, and abhorred, as of the Devil.
1. Covetousness, it is all one wi•• Desire; he that desires, covets, wh• ther 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, Rom. 7. 7. that is, I had not known lust to be a sin, unless the Law had forbid it. Wherfore, though lawful desires are good▪