Some general directions for a comfortable walking with God delivered in the lecture at…Some generall directions for a comfortable walking with God deliuered in the lecture at…

2. Special, dear, intimate: In consultations and counsels about matters of special secrecy, greatest weight, and highest consequence. In spiritual refreshments, religious conferences, prayer, marriage, all manner of nearest engagements. In a free unreserved communication of their souls, ⟨p. 74⟩mutual exchange of the thoughts of their hearts, faithful revelations of the spiritual state of their consciences one unto another, and in such like blissful pangs and passages of Christian love, and ardent sanctified affection.

2. Speciall, deare, intimate: In consultations and counsels about matters of speciall secrecy, greatest weight, and highest consequence. In spirituall refreshments, religious conferences, prayer, marriage, all manner of neerest engagements. In a free vnreserued communication of their soules, ⟨p. 74⟩mutuall exchange of the thoughts of their hearts, faithfull reuelations of the spirituall state of their consciences one vnto another, and in such like blissefull pangs and passages of Christian loue, and ardent sanctified affection.

The former of these the Christian must of necessity entertain, and exercise sometimes with the men of this world; except he will go out of the world, 1. Cor. 5. 10. But the second fellowship is the Saints peculiar The Christian is bound out by the Book of God, the Law of heaven, upon his allegiance to his Lord and Sovereign, and by the common Charter of Gods children, from conversing with delightful intimateness, and from the exchange and exercise of those special passages of dearest acquaintance with profane men, children of darkness, and enemies of God. For these and the like reasons,

The former of these the Christian must of necessitie entertaine, and exercise sometimes with the men of this world; except he will goe out of the world,