A30128:332
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, 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, Heb. 13. 5.
First, When men, to whom God hath given a comfortable livelyhood, are yet not content therewith: This is against the Apostle, where he saith, Let your conuersation be without covetousness, and be content with such things as you have; for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee, Heb. 13. 5.
Secondly, It is covetousness in the Seller, that puts him to say of his traffic, it is better than it is, that he may heighten the price of it: and covetousness in the Buyer, that prompts him to say worse of ⟨p. 98⟩a thing, than he thinks in his Conscience it is, and that for an abatement of a reasonable price.
Secondly, It is covetousness in the Seller, that puts him to say of his traffick, it is better than it is, that he may heighten the price of it: and covetousness in the Buyer, that prompts him to say worse of ⟨p. 98⟩a thing, than he thinks in his Conscience it is, and that for an abatement of a reasonable price.
This is that which the Apostle forbids, under the name of defraud,