7hat the companie ofreick.edworldlings is tobeauoided.l t 59 which iudgements and punifhments, when God would haue hisferuants priuiledged and preferued,he calleth vnto them with a voice from heauen, faying, goe out ofhermy Apoc.i8.4. people,thatyebe notpartakers inherfinnes, and that ye receiue not of her plagues. Implying their danger of being tainted with thehunes ofthe whoreofBabylon, and the impoflbi_ litie ofefcaping her punifhments,iftheydid not forfake her wicked fellawfhip. Butas all focietiewith wickedworldlings, is avery dan- 4.Seci.13 gerous tentation todraw vs vnto finne,and to fubieái vs vn- That ajfnitie to punifhment,foefpecially when we enterinto neàrel}.,miththe milked bónds ofaßïnitie andmarriagewith them ; for they who are:h moot dan- thus vnequally yoked with vnbeleeuingworldlings,arefure gerous. either to goe quietly with them in the wayofhnne,or to be shrewdly gaulled, whiled theymake refiUance,and draw a- nother way. And forthis fault, good lehofaphat had his re- putation blemifhed, of whom itis laid, that he hadriches andhonourin abundance, buthemas ioyned inaffnitie /bithA- z.Chron.x8.r. hab. Thewhichbondofalliance made himprofeffe to the enemieofGod,defiring his afliflance, fans as thouart, and verf.3. my people as thypeople, andwe trillioynelbith thee inthewarre. And this is the reafonwhich the holyGhof+ rendreth of le- z Kin 8 r8 horams idolatrie, becaufe the daughter of eifhabwas his g' wife; and alto why e4haziah did coil/in thefight of theLord, verf.27. 1:be the hole orAhab, betaufe he was the fanne in lalb ofthe boufeofAhab. Yea,with this Inure was wife Salomon cat- ched,being drawne by his idolatrous wiues to leaue the Lord(whohad in extraordinarie mauer bleffed him aboue t,King.u.4.g.. all the Kings of Ifrael) and to ferue the idolsof the Hea- thens. CHA P...
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