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A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the dutiesA guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties
A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the duties wherein it consisteth, the helps enabling & the reasons persuading unto it the impediments hindering the practise of it, and the best means to remove them whereunto are added divers prayers and a treatise of carnal security by John Douname Bachelor in Divinity and minister of Gods Word.A guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties wherein it consisteth, the helpes inabling & the reasons parswading vnto it ye impediments hindering ye practise of it, and the best meanes to remoue them whereunto are added diuers prayers and a treatise of carnall securitie by Iohn Douname Batcheler in Diuinitie and minister of Gods Word.
London: printed by Felix Kingstone and William Stansby for Ed, 1622
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.
§. Sect. 3 Examples of the faithful who have shunned wicked company.
§. Sect. 3 Examples of the faithfull who haue shunned wicked company.
Unto these testimonies of holy Scriptures, dehorting us from entertaining near society and alliance with the wicked, we may add the examples 1of Gods servants, who have carefully shunned all fellowship with them. Thus Elisha so much detested the wicked life and reign of idolatrous Jehoram, that had he not respected the presence of Jehoshaphat, who was in his company, he would not, as he professeth, so much as have looked towards him, nor seen him. So the Apostle John, as it is recorded of him, finding Cerinthus, a blasphemous heretic, in a bath with some of his consorts, 2belching out blasphemies against our Saviour Christ, in haste departed ⟨p. 656⟩with his company, for fear of being attached by Gods Judgments together with them; Who was no sooner gone out of the company, but presently the house fell down and overwhelmed all that cursed crew. But most plainly may we see this practised in the example of holy David; who in many places showeth how much he hated and shunned the society of wicked men; I have not (saith he) sate with vain persons, neither will I go in with 3dissemblers; I have hated the congregation of evil doers, and I will not sit with the wicked. A froward heart shall depart from me, I will not know a wicked person.