A30128:333
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.
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, 1 Cor. 6. 7, 8. and that which Solomon condemns, Prov. 20. 14.
Thirdly, It is through covetousness, that men think much of that which goeth beside their own mouth, though possibly, it goeth to those that have more need than themselves, and also that better deserve it than they.
Thirdly, It is thorow covetousness, that men think much of that which goeth beside their own mouth, though possibly, it goeth to those that have more need than themselves, and also that better deserve it than they.