comfortable walking with God. onelyuponthofe opportunities and feafons,which feemebelt and fittell tohis holy Wifedome. Now, if when they light upon them (as they may juilly at any time ) any of Gods Children bee found amongft them unwarrantably andde- lightfully, it is righteóuswith God, that he receive hispor- tion amongft themat that time , andbee fearefully infolded within the fury ofthe greateft temporali vifitation.It is righ- see teens withGod , that if his owne Childewill needs beeun- warrantably familiar withhis enernie, that beealto be par- taker ofany temporal plague,efpecially with his enemy,even to the loffefometimesof his naturali life.Take then I befeech you the holy counfell ofthebleffed Apoftle, Lphef.5.y. Bee not therefore companions with them : And let this reafon fright you out oftheir company :- Let no mandeceiveyou (faith he) with vaine * words : for, forTaub things commeth the wrath * carnRtó men w,u ofGodupon thechildrenofdifobidience. [For fuch things j to bec ready ro re a wit, fornication, uncleannetle, covetoufneffe, filthinefle, foo- precifeneffe With ifh talking, jetting and fuch like.. Take heede therefore of ri words that anK converfing with the praftifersofthefeuncomely things. ww,14. Jboald bee 2. Secondly,theremuff very fhortly bee an everlafting fe-fo ,Irilrly een/ra- red & condemned, parationbetween the Chriftian and prophane men : at the that wee may not fartheft, they mutt part upon their death-beds, and neverfee nowand then bee one another againe unto the day of Judgement : and then ith at seed eowat they theymullfhake hands for world without end. For there is call them fet betwixt them by Gods immutable and irrevocableDe- therefore faiththe f Y 3poflle, Let no cree , avaft and immeafurable guile, whichhands as fail and man deceive you,. unremoveable, as God Atmightie in his Throne ofMajeitie ; &c. fo that they can never poffibly meete. Betweene suand you, Luke id.a6. faith Abraham to therich man in hell, there is aagreat gulfs fixed, fo that theywhich wouldpafefrom hence toyou, cannot ; neithercan theypafe to us : that would comefrom thence. If it be fo then, that afteran inch of time, there muff bee betwixt them anendlefledivorce, and anunpaffable diitance through all eternitie; it is bell for the Chrithan tobegin this feparati- on and difacquaintance in time, andnotto repofe his fpeciall love, the fweeteft andnobleft ofall hisaffe&ions, upon an iá b0awhere itmuff noteternally reú, nor intimately con- verfe. 79
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