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7.
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them,
take them
to Confort
with us,
make leagues
of
intimate amitie
with
them.
2.
He
is
not
to be
counted
a
wicked man
who bath
a
number
of
weakeneffes;
but
Come
good thing, who
is
naught, but not difcovered;
but he
is
fuch a
perfon,
1.
That
is
without the
Church. 2. That
is
juftly excommunicate. 3.
That though
he be in
the
bofome
of
the
Church,
yet
doth by
his
work mànifeft
that
he
is
a meere
carnali
man;
as
in
the text,
be he
a
meere
worldly
man,
I
mull
avoid familia-
rity
with him.
But
it
may
be
objeóled,
What if
my
wife do by fruits make
me
fee
the
hath nothing
in her
that
is
truly
good,
(hall
I
not
keepe
company
with her
e
This
muff
be exceptedfrom not conforting:the wicked are double;
Such
towhom
wee are
not
bound
by
any fpeciall
bond
:
Others
to
whom
religious
bonds, as
marriage,
Civili callings,naturall,as neere-
nefieofconfanguinity: the
rule
therefore
is
to
be underftood of the
firft.
For the fecond, wee mutt
afford
them
the
prefence
of
our out-
ward man familiarly and outward
benevolence, though we cannot
be
of
one
mincie
and heart
with them
as
the multitude
of
believers.
t
Cor.
7. 13.
If
an unbelieving husband
will dwell with
a believing
wife, the
mutt
not
leave him
:
This
then
is
the thing,
¿that
we may
not
let
our fclves familiarly accommpany
the wicked,
let
them
have
our
prefence fo far
as it
is
free
for
us
to
refraine
them: this was that was ty-
pically
frgnified
,
Levi:.
13.44
God
would
have
the
cleane and
the
Leprous feparated,
and
Pray.
4.15.
he
biddeth
us
got
away
,
paffe by,
baulke
the
way
of
thewicked;
that
is,
not onely
their
fin,
but
the familiar
accuftoming with
them,
and
Daviddoth
propound his
example,
I
have
net dwelt nor
haunted with
vain
perfens
,
Pfal. 2.6.4.
So
An
s
2.
Save
your
[elves,
make
efcape
from
this
generation.
And
z
Thef.
3.14.
If
any
man
obey
not our
ward,
note
that
man
and have
no company
with
him.
For
this
doth
fubvert
and confound
that order
,
that God
will not
haveall barked
in
one
bottome, but the
vile
and precious feparated,
Ier.15.19.
Again,
it
is
hurtfull for
Gods
children, for it Bothinfeët
them,
as
he
faith,
Prov,
t
3.20.
A
companion offooles
will
prove
naught:
So
the text faith
:
and
be giveth
a
particular inftance, Prov.
zz.
24,25.
ítiakeno
friendfbiip
with an angry man, andwith
a
furious
man
thou
jhalt
notgot,lefi
thou
learn
his
way
andget
aware
to
thy foule:
It
is
hard to
treadon
coales and
not
to
be burnt
s
or to
touch
pitch and
not
bede-
filed,
as
good
Lot,
though he
vexed his route ,
yet what
an
exceffve
love was ftolne upon
himout
of
that
placee
what
a
poyfon
was
entred
into
his
daughters
and wife,
as
the
Rorie Both manifell
e
3.
It
hutteththe
wicked, for
itkcepeththem
from being afhamed,
and returning
to
God,
this being
a
thing
that
they
take
heart
by,
if
they
may have
the
familiar prefence
of
fuch
as
arevertuous.
Luke
134
26.
We
have
eaten
and
druoke
in
thy pretence:
and it maketh
us
unable
effeltually
to
rebuke
them, when
we are in fuch a league
of
familiarity
with
objell.