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3.
Epbeans,
Ghap.5.
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Now followeth
the fecond thing ,
how
farce
we
muff
turne away
from
vice; Let
them
not be
named,
that
is,
let
them
be had in extreame
deteftation, have
nothing todoe with
them,
doe
not fo much
as
name
them
without detcfling
of
them:
So the
Lord
fpeakes Exod. 23.
t3.
Is
all
things
that
I
have
faid
unto
yeti,
be
circumfpe£i,
and
make no.men-
lionof
the
names
ofother
Gods,
neither let
it
be
heard
out
of
thy mouth.
Which
God
promifeth to
worke,
Hofeu
2. 17.
I
will
take
away
the
names
of
Baalim
out
of
her mouth,
and
they1/saßno more
be
remembredby
their
same.
The
phrafe noting nothing
but that they
fhould
extream-
lydeteft them
, and have
nothing
to
doe with them
as
Hofea
a4.8.
What have
Ito
doe
any more
with
Idols ?
faith Ephraim repenting:
0-
therwife
Paul fhould
fin in
naming
them,
while he
doth
forbid
ir.
We
fee
then,
That
we muff have finne
in
extreame
hatred,that
we
muff be
fo
farre
from
doing it,
that
we muff
not
name
it
without
ha-
tred.
Hate the
very
garment
that
is
(potted.
es1
bhorre
that
which
is
evil!;
The
Originali word
fignifieth
vehemently
hate, or
hate as
hell,
that
which
is
evil!.
Thus David,
Ina
met
take the names
of
their ldels
into
my
mouth.
And the Hebrew
(asother
tongues)
exprcffing finnes
by
words
that
fignifie
the contrary vertue,as
blafpheming
God
by
bleffing,
doe
Phew
that
even
the
names
of
them
are
to
be
declined.
What agree-
ment can there
be
betwixt
light
and
darkneffe?
Got out,
feparate,
touch
no
ancleane
thing.
This thereforedoth
Phew us
how extreamly
we fhould
abhorre
fin,
what
kinde
of
perfons we fhouldbe
in
all
godly
converfation and
ho.
Iineffe.
We
fhould
not abide the leaftcommunion with it , wee
can-
not
run
too
far
from it.
If
one were fuborned
to
kill
us
,
or robbe
us,
if
we
had hint
of
fuch
a
perfon,we could never
beat
quiet
till we
were
farce
enough fromhim.
It
rebuketh fuch
las
doe not onely let the
name
of
finnes, but
great
finnes
dwell with
them,
not labouring
to
roote
them out;
like as
the
Gefhurires among
the
children
of
Ifrael, the
Jebufrtes in Jerufa-
lem,
and
others.
The
reafon
followeth
As
becommeth
Saints.
Obf.
That
our Condi-
tion
of
being
Saints
by
calling midi move as
to
al
holy
converfation
;
We
are wafhed
in
blood
, waffled with
the
clean
waters
of
the
Spirit,
therefore wee
mull
have care
to
avoid
the
defilements
of
the world
;
New
conditions require new manners.
If
wee had
a
garment out
of
which
we
got
fotne ftaines with
great
cork
and
traváile, how
carefully
would we
keep it
from receivingnew fpots
:
much
more
muff
this
move us,that we
have
beeneclenfed
not with
filver
or
gold
,
but with
the blood
of
Chrift,
and thofe cleane waters
ofthe
Spirit
,
and
there-
fore the Apoftle S.
Peter
faith,
that
thofe that
joyne
not
faith
, vertue,
knowledge,
&e. together,
have
forgot the
waffling
Away
of
their
fins
and fanllifying
of
them.
We
muff
therefore remember our
effate and
labour to
walke
worthy
of
it,
titles without fubfiance arefoolifh.
The
Pope
tolerating Stewes
underhis note , is far
from
any femblance
of
S.Pauls fpirit.
Eee
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