I 44 ~ DzreCl1ons Gr Converfion. and ye_t wicked company have pull'd him back at · laft, and made him feven fold more the child of· hell. I~ one word 2 ~ · hav~ no hopes of the~, except thou wut fhake .9ft toy eyll company. Chnfi fpeak– eth to th~e, as to them, tn another cafe; If tbozt feek me, then let tbe(e go tbeir w~r, Joh. I 8 8. Thy life lies upon it : Forfake thefe, or eHe thou canfl: not live, Prov. 9· 6. Wilt thou be worfe than thebeaft, to run on when tho'u·feefl: the Lord with a drawn f~ord in th~ \Vay?. Numb. 2 z.. 33. Let 'this fentc.nce .. b.e written tn CaP.ttals upon thy Confcience, A COMPANION OF FOOLS SHALL BE DE– s:rROYED, Prov. r3· 2.'?· TheLord hath fpoken it, and who fhall reverfe It? And wilt thou run up– on deflrutl:ion, when God himfelf doth forewarn thee? lf Goddeever change t~y heart, it will ap– pear in the change of thy company. Oh, fear and fly this gulf, by which io many thouC1nd fqttlshavc been fwalloweJ inro perditi ')D. '· It will be hard for .' thee, inde·ed, to make thine eicap~: Thy .(:Ompa– nions wiHbe tnocking thee out of thy Religibri.;.a!'d · w-iU ftudy to fill thee l;";ith pr·::juJices againt1 i1ricF nets, as ridiculo.us and" cornfortlers. _They will be :flattering tlree, and alluring thee ; b~t remernber the warnings of the Holy Ghoft, lrfy Son, if /timer! entice tbee., con{ertt thou not. If they ~'-.Y, Come with ~ -. caft hz thy lot among $-!5 ; w.d~ not tbo1t irl tbe ~•t)' . · witb tbei?J:, r~;frain tby j{ht from their pa::b; avoid it, p.,~{s not by it, turn fr-om it 1 and p.t(s aw~y: For the way · ~f tb,; whked i>· it.-5 darlez -:']J, they k'ww not itt r:rh1.t th~y [tumble. They l.ty w:tit for their own bl::od; tbty iur~· pri– vily for tbr.iro1:'P~ltves, Proy: ~·I~, to 18. and 4· 14, .to r 9 • My fouIts h:toved WJthHi rne, to f~e qow mar~y of my hearers are like toptrifh, boththefand~their houfes, ·by this wre~ched rnifch.ief~ even the haunt- . ing of {uch: phlc.es, 2nd cornp~. ny, where~y they are drawn tnto t1n. Once n1ore I admonttb you_, as
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