Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

168 That the friend /hip o fwieked worldling, is to be contemned, furtherance in the courte ofgodlincffe. And as the Sonne of Eed.6,x4. Syracb faith, A faith full friendisáflrangdefence, and he that r f .&c. findethfuch an one ftndeth e treefure..4 fauhfull friend ought Salem è manda not to be changed for any thing, and theweiQht ofgoldand frlseer toUunt,gai toi. is not to be compared to thegoodnes of his fait h. Afaithful friend tant amicitiasn, is the medicine of life and immortalitie, and they that feare the Ambrof.de Lordfhal fndhim: nm hofofeereth.theLord (bat direlihis ienci_ amiciLcaps m- Asp aright, t as his ornne felfe,foßhallhis friend be. Which who sine cogitatio fo takeaway from amongfl men, they talle atbay (as it were) effet tedium, the Sun oat of the fsrmament, and fpoile them rof their chicle emn:s operas :a comfort t for as one faith,u.ithoutfriends all our cogitations are labar,00mis tedious, our *orb!: toylefome, euery countrieis an exile or rl terraperegra rim age, alllife a torment, and withouttheir folate life weré e patio,&c.CaG fián.inepic'. better thendeath. pea 2. Ofthis true friendfhip which is only among Chore that are In what refpells good,in good, & to good ends and purpofes we do not here . friendfhipwitls peake; yea rather we ought earnefily to wills, that thisver. the tricked is to tue.no leffe excellent then rare and hard to be found might beaueided. 4m ¡cut versa dia quaritur, vis inuenitar, difficile rerun. tar. Hieran. epila.ad Ruff. toms. agame returne to the fans oftnen from heauen, vnta which it feemeth fled, that their comfort in this fweet fruition of their mutuall good might be inlarged and increafed.But the following difcourfe tendeth to the contempt ofthat world.. ly; wicked, falfe and counterfeit friendfhip intertaineda- mong men, which is bctweene the euill alone, or the good and bad together in euill things,and for the accomplifhinent of euill ends: in which rcfpe6s whë this friendfhip is admit- ted,ìt quite excludeth the true loue of God.Neither wouldI haue Gods feruants. to withdraw themfelues fromworld- lings in refpe& ofciuill kindneffe; and ro profefleopen em. nityagainft their perfons;butonly from having necre friend - fhip and familiaritie with themior any communion and fel- lowfhip in that n hich is euill. For howfocuer we are to hate their fins, yet wee mua loue their perlons, and though wee may not in refpe& of the former culls incertaine them as l &ow.z z r8 friends, yet if it be poffible, and 46 mach as in vs het h, we are to bane peace with all men: and to further with our, bell indc- uours theirconuerfionvino God, that fo- being of onefa- muse, we may loue them as our brethren and fellow feuants: and