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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…
Some general directions for a comfortable walking with God delivered in the lecture at Kettering in Northamptonshire, with enlargement: by Robert Bolton ...Some generall directions for a comfortable walking with God deliuered in the lecture at Kettering in Northhamptonshire, with enlargement: by Robert Bolton ...
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Edmund Weaver, 1626London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Edmund Weauer, 1626
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. He that toucheth Pitch, saith the Wise man, shall be defiled therewith; and he that hath fellowship with a proud man, shall be like unto him. Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burnt? Can a man go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burnt? Prou. 6. 27, 28. Neither can any familiarly and intimately converse with a profane man, but he shall be corrupted.
1. He that toucheth Pitch, saith the Wise man, shall be defiled therewith; and hee that hath fellowship with a proud man, shall be like vnto him. Can a man take fire in his bosome, and his clothes not be burnt? Can a man goe vpon hot coales, and his feete not be burnt? Prou. 6. 27, 28. Neither can any familiarly and intimately conuerse with a profane man, but he shall be corrupted.
There is a strange attractive, and imperious power in ill company, to empoison and pervert even the best dispositions:
There is a strange attractiue, and imperious power in ill company, to empoyson and peruert euen the best dispositions:
1. By holding familiar correspondence with lewd companions, there first steals upon a man a secret and insensible dislike of his former sober courses: He begins within himself to censure, and renounce his former ways of innocency, and harmless conversation; as too restraining and distasteful to the ordinary liberty of youth, and common frailty of flesh and blood; and as too much dissweetned, and straitened with unnecessary strictness and abridgement.