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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. 6 That we must consort our selves with good company.
§. Sect. 6 That we must consort our selues with good company.
The sixth caution is, that for our recreation sake we do not willingly consort our selves with evil company; observing herein the Apostles rule; 1Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. Wherein our care ought to be the greater, because nothing more causeth near familiarity and friendly acquaintance, then agreement and communion in the same delights, and nothing sooner breedeth likeness of manners and conditions, then when in our pleasures we jump and conjoin together with one mind and affection. So that as our recreations with them that truly fear God, are strong bonds to tie us unto them in love, and forcible motives to make us also join with them, whom we so love in all good duties and virtuous actions; so contrariwise communicating with profane persons and carnal worldlings, in our sports and pastimes, causeth us in time to proceed from liking of the pleasure, to like the party that joineth with us in it, and from affecting of the man, we come at last to affect his manners. Neither is there more danger in the time of plague, for one that is sound, to keep in the same house with those that are sick; then for a true Christian, to consort in pleasure with such as make no conscience of their ways; seeing as well from the one as from the other, there issueth and spreadeth a secret poison, which with its contagion, infecteth those that come into their company.
The sixth caution is, that for our recreation sake we doe not willingly consort our selues with euill company; obseruing heerein the Apostles rule; 1