~82 Me4n:t to efcapeahadconfcience. · Cap.25 [corner. Evill coniparty corrupts the beft ---~ difpofitions: weCeegod1yJeho(aphat in com– ll,in-.22.4 pan}' with a wicked Ahab, complell)enting too farre, and c_omplying too too much. I I ' mn tJJ lhou art fatth he &c. · 5 In things doubt full be well advifed; or forbeare, and take the fi1rer and' fa fer way. This is a neceffary rule to be obfer- . ved. I meane not the fafer way in outward refpect: This often blinds the~eyes of the wife, and pervertst~e judgement of the ju• didous. But of inward fafety before Ged I fpeake. As for infrance; V fury Come allow:> mofl: condemne it ; now what is to bee done? Faith arul Troth fotne fay is no fwea.. ring; others fay, taey h~ve toomuch ap– pearanceof evill : Jam fure thyConfcience will fay, they are more then Yea, Yea ;· Nay; Na,. Some fay toDrink andpledgehealths; · toplay at Cards, and Dice; to follow the f~lfhions of the times ; The long haire of men, the naked riecks, batks and breafis of women, are alllawfull. Others areof a– nother minde. Judge thou what is fafeft, an~ let thofe be tiiy J..:Ules to judge by, Eph. , 5· 1 r, Have no felloJP(bip with the unfruitfull wdrkJ ofdarkz!efr,hut rather reprove them.&Phi.. 4· 8. What{oever thint,l are trNe, whatfo•ver thin[,J arej;~ft, whatfoever are hone(l, #hatfoever I are pure, whatfoever are lovely, and whatfoever are of good report ; thini{e on lhefe things and doe them&c. Refolvcthou what i& fafeft with thy felfe, · · when
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