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Èphelian.r,
Cham.
V
E
R.
7,
ging
wrath
and
eternall, belongeth to impenitent
coatis
in
wic-
kedneffe.
rye
r.
This therefore
is
a
ground
of
exhortation,
that we would
not
har-
den our hearts,
but while he
fpeaketh heare
him. Let
us
not
be
like
deafe
Adders, that though God charme with
us,command
us,
intreate
us, will not be reclaimed
:
let not
God complains
of
our hard hearts,
nor upbraid
us
with hearts
of
Adamant,
neckes
of fleele; this
finne
is
of
all
other
moff deadly,
if
we will
not
heare and
obey
:
nay
this ma-
keth all
the reftdeadly, the
ref( fhould
not hurt
us,
if
this werenot
ad-
ded. Looke
as
a
man
that
hath many difeafes, yet
hash
a
medicine
(hewed
him,
and a
diet which
will recover
him,
if
he will
take
them;
if
he
dye,
it
is
not
fo much
his
difeafes,
as his
wilfulneffe
that
doth
kill
him
:
fo we
Phew
you faith
in
Chrift,
the
diet
of
the Apoftle;
z
Cor.7. I.
Purge from
adl
flthineffe,
and
grow
up
unto
full
bolineffe;
if
you
will
not
ufe
this,
difobedience doth chiefely bring your deftruétion.
2.
Secondly,
it
doth
teach
us
the
fearefull eftate
of
them that
doe
not
yeeld, when
God
in
his
Word
doth perlwade them
,
and call
them, to
this or
that duty. Wofull
is
our effare,
what
(hall
become
of
fuch
rebellious children
e
Looke
Dent,
a
1.18.
The Lord there com.
Deut.z1.18.
manded, that
if
any
man
had
a
fnne,
fluobborne,
and
rebellious,
and
will
net
hearken unto the
voyce
of'his
Father, that
man Mould
be
Honed
to
death.
What
then
if
we
be rebellious hill to theFather
of
our Spirits!
yet this we count no finne, to heare this or
that,
goe away, and
never
yeeld obedience, we
fee
it
not to
be
an
offence,
which
is
the bigheft
rebellion.
YEAS.
7.
Vu
A
s E
7.
Ee
net
therefore
companions
with
them-
Now
the Apoftle
commethto
a
new
precept
by
way
ofdeduaion;
the precept is, that
We
fbould
not
be
companions
with them;
that
is,feeing
fuch
judgements come downeupon there
(inners, have nothing to
doe
with them, not
onely refraining their
finne, verfe
xi.
but not taking
them to
be
familiar conforts to you;
which
will
bring
on their finne,
and make you (hare
in
their judgement. This
is
not the fame with the
thing
to
be
concluded
:
it
is
one
thing not
to
doe
finne
our
felves, ano-
ther
thing not to accompany familiarlythofe
that
doe
ir,
or to
be
ac-
ceffary in
the
finnes
of
others.
This
exhortation
is
urged
in
the verfe
following from their prefent condition, which
is
amplified
from that
they
had beene,
from
then
an
exhortation inferred
on it,
viz,
that
they
fhould
walke
as
the
children
of
light, the
reafon
of
which
is
interferted,
and he
doth
defcribe the manner
ofthis
converfa-
tion, to
the
t
5.
verfe.
Doll.
The
thing then to be
confidered in this verfe
is,7hat
we
net
familiar-
ly accompany
the wicked.
r.
To
open the termes
of
this
conclufion;
the meaning
is
not, that
we may not be
in
place
where they are, for
I
Cor4.47
then we
mutt
goe
forth
of
the
world,
nor
that
we
may not doe com-
Mar.
r.47
mon curtefies
towards them;
Salute your
enemies;
nor
that
we may
not
upon
Tome
occafïon come into
more
neere meetings:
but
that
we
muff
not
let
them
have our more frequent
and familiar fellowfhip with
them