The spiritual watchThe spirituall vvatch

Let us remember in this case that as it is an height of impiety and ungodliness for a man ⟨p. 36⟩^xto be bad in a good age, and to continue unreformed in a time of general reformation; so it is a special commendation, and a note of true godliness, for a man ^yto be good in a bad age, and to continue uncorrupted in times of general corruption: yea that it is the office of good Christians (that are in their kind and degree ^zthe light of the world, while they are in the world, as ^aChrist also was when he was in it) ^bto shine as lights in the middest of a naughty and perverse nation, striving to show more sincerity and more zeal and forwardness in the best things, the more dissolute the times grow, and the more corrupt those are they live among; like the lamp that shineth brightest where the air about it is most dark, or the room that it is in; and like the fire that burneth hottest and scaldeth most, when the weather is most cold, in the sharpest of winter.

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