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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.
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. Isa. 3. 16. This is that also which Christ calleth, an evil eye; and John, the lust of the flesh, and of the eyes, and doth defile those who are not very watchful over their own hearts, Mark 7. 22. 1 John 2. 16.
This wanton eye, is that which the most holy Saints should take heed of, because it is apt to seize upon them also. When Paul bids Timothy beseech the younger ⟨p. 111⟩women to walk as becomes the Gospel, •e bids him do it with all Purity: as who should say, take heed that while thou instructest them to holiness, thou thy self be not corrupted with the lust of thy eye, 1 Tim. 5. 1, 2.