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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.
3. Therefore Covetousness carrieth in it every sin (we speak of sins against th• ⟨p. 97⟩second Table) even as a Serpent carrieeth her young ones in her belly. This the Scripture affirms, where it saith, Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his Ox, nor his Ass, nor any thing that […] is thy Neighbours, Exod. 20. 17. Covetousness will meddle with any thing.
3. Therefore Covetousness carrieth in it every sin (we speak of sins against th• ⟨p. 97⟩second Table) even as a Serpent carri•eth her young ones in her belly. This the Scripture affirms, where it saith, Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, •nor his Ox, nor his Ass, nor any thing that 〈…〉 is thy Neighbours, Exod. 20. 17. Covetousness will meddle with any thing.
Now there are in my mind at present, these eight notes of covetousness, which hinder Good Works, and a Christian Conversation among men, wherever they are harboured.
First, When men, to whom God hath given a comfortable livelihood, are yet not content therewith: This is against the Apostle, where he saith, Let your conversation be without covetousness, and be content with such things as you have; for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee,