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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, to dissuade all from this poisonous Sin, observe that above all sins, in the New Testament, this is called Idolatry, Ephes. 5. 5. Col. 3. 5. And therefore God's People should be so far from being taken with it, that they should be much afraid of the naming of it one among another, lest it should, as adulterous thoughts, infect the heart by the talking of it, Ephes. 5. 3.
Now then, to diswade all from this poisonous Sin, observe that above all sins, in the New Testament, this is called Idolatry, Ephes. 5. 5. Col. 3. 5. And therefore God's People should be so far from being taken with it, that they should be much afraid of the naming of it one among another, lest it should, as adultrous thoughts, infect the heart by the talking of it, Ephes. 5. 3.
Quest. But why is Covetousness called Idolatry?
Answ. 1. Because it engageth the very heart of a man in it, to mind earthly things: it gets our love which should be set on God, and sets it upon poor empty creatures: it puts our affections out ⟨p. 101⟩of Heaven, where they should be, and sets them on Earth, where they should not be,