A30128:368
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 Adultery or Uncleanness.
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, That almost, in every place where the Apostle layeth down a catalogue of wickednesses, he layeth down Adultery, Fornication, and Uncleanness in the front; as that in Mark 7. 21. Rom. 1. 29. 1 Cor. 6. 9. Gal. 5. 19. Ephes. 5. 3 1 Thes. 4. 3, 4, 5. Heb. 12. 16. Jam. 2. 11. 1 Pet. 2. 11. 2 Pet. 2. 10.
From this I gather, that the Sin of Uncleanness is a very predominant and master Sin, easy to overtake the sinner, as being one of the first that is ready to offer it self at all occasions, to break the Law of God.
From this I gather, that the Sin of Uncleanness is a very predominant and master Sin, easie to overtake the sinner, as being one of the first that is ready to offer it self at all occasions, to break the Law of God.
Secondly, I observe, that this sin is committed unawares to many, even so soon as a man hath but looked upon a woman. I say unto you, saith Christ, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust, or desire after her, he hath already committed Adultery with her in his heart,