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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 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.
This sin of uncleanness, I say, is a very taking sin, it is natural above all sins to mankind; and as it is most natural, so it wanteth not tempting occasions, having objects for to look on in every corner: ⟨p. 110⟩wherefore there is need of a double and treble watchfulness in the soul against it. It is better here to make a covenant with our eyes, like Job, (Job 31. 1.) than to let them wander to God's dishonour, and our own discomfort.
This sin of uncleanness, I say, is a very taking sin, it is natural above all sins to mankind; and as it is most natural, so it wanteth not tempting occasions, having objects for to look on in every corner: ⟨p. 110⟩wherefore there is need of a double and trible watchfulness in the soul against it. It is better here to make a covenant with our eyes, like Job, (Job 31. 1.) than to let them wander to God's dishonour, and our own discomfort.
There are these three things which discover a man or woman too much inclining to the uncleanness of their own heart.
The first is a wanton eye, or an eye that doth secretly effect it self with such objects as are tickling of the heart with the thoughts of immodesty and uncleanness. Isaiah calls this a wanton eye; and Peter, an eye full of adultery, that cannot cease from sin, 2 Pet. 2. 14.