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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.
Oh! how many souls in the day of God, will curse the day that ever they gave way to a wanton eye!
2. The second thing that discovereth one much inclining to the lusts of uncleanness, it is wanton and immodest talk; such as that brazen-faced Whore, in the seventh of the Proverbs, had; or such as they in Peter, who allured, through the lust if the flesh, through much wantonness, those who were clean escaped from them, who live in error, 2 Pet. 2. 18. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh: wherefore if we be Saints, let us take heed, as of our eye, so of our tongue, and let not the lust of uncleanness, or of adultery, be once named among us, named among us as becometh Saints, Ephes. 5. 3. Mark: let it not be once named. This implies, that the lusts ⟨p. 112⟩of uncleanness are devilishly taking; […] will both take the heart with eyes […] tongue; Let it not be once named amo•• you, &c.
2. The second thing that discovereth one much inclining to the lusts of uncleanness, it is wanton and immodest talk; such as that brazen-faced Whore, in the seventh of the Proverbs, had; or such as they in Peter, who allured, through the lust if the flesh, through much wantonness, those who were clean escaped from them, who live in error, 2 Pet. 2. 18. Out of the abun•ance of the heart the mouth speaketh: wherefore if we be Saints, let us take heed, as of our eye, so of our tongue, and let not the lust of uncleanness, or of adultery, be once named among us, named among us as becometh Saints, Ephes. 5. 3. Mark: let it not be once named. This implies, that the lusts ⟨p. 112⟩