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f!i.race.
AJounrli.ng
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..
.
fe~
it. .
Their .
Company alorie
I;
cannotaway
\VIth.
I feld'om fo
tnuch
as
touch
a
womans
Han9,
1
for ·.I
t~
ink
thef~
things
are'n·ot
fo
be:
co'n~ Hl~
me.
When
l
~ave
feen
good
M-en
falute
thofe
\/Votnen
that
they
have
vifited,
or
that
have vifited
them)
I
have
at times made
my
Objecri9~ :
againft
it,
and
when
they
have
anfwcred
that
it
was,' but
il
pi~ce
of
Civility,
l have
told
them
it
is
not
a
comly fight :
Sorne
indeed
have
urged
the holy
kifS, but
then I have a?ked
why
they
made
baulks,
why ..
the-y did.
{alutc tpe
moft
_handfom,and let the
in
favon~d . go·;
ihus ·how
laudable
foever
fuch
thing?
have.
been
in.the
Eyes
ofothers, -
they
have .been
unfc~miy
iri
my
J1ght
·
·3.1 7.And
novv
fo~r
a wind un
in
this
mat'ter,
1 calling
not
only,
.Men
but
_t\ r gels
to
proye
n1e
guilty
of
ha vi~g
.ca·rnally
to
.do
with
~ny
Woman fave
my
Wife,
I
nor
am
1 - afr~id ~o
do it a
fecond
time, knowing
that
it :ca~not
offend
the
Lo: r~
jn
ft1ch
cafe,
to
ca l~
:God
for a
Record
~f)~n
o1y
Soul, that
in:. thefe
things
I am innocent.
Not
that 1
have
been
t!~us
kept,
bec..aufe
of
·:any
go3dne(s: in me
}~lo r e.
the;J
in
any
other,
but
God has
been
1nerc1ful
t~
me
and has kept
me, to
whom
1
.p ray
thJt he will
keep
me
ftiJl,not
only
from
..
thi~:
qut from every evil
way
~p.d ·work~
..and
l
pref~rve
m.e t9 his
heavenly Kin.gdotn.
.Amen.
3
r
8;
N~'v
as
Satan laboured
by
reprq li.cheS
~nd
fianders
to'
make
me
vile
an1ong
my
~ountry_men,
that, .
it
I?Offible,
my
preachin ·