An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of…

First, ¹Those that will make Leagues with wicked men, it is just with God that afterwards they should come and be enthralled in all the wickedness and abominations of those wicked men. They were indeed at a distance from them before, but when once the peace is made, they come now to be all one with them.

First, ¹Those that will make Leagues with wicked men, it is just with God that afterwards they should come and be inthrall'd in all the wickedness and abominations of those wicked men. They were indeed at a distance from them before, but when once the peace is made, they come now to be all one with them.

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But the main is this,¹ That, when men are inwardly unclean, God doth not care for their outward cleanness. Thus many professors of Religion defiling their consciences, and becoming like the wicked in inward sins, at length God leaves them up to themselves that there should be no difference between them and the wicked in their outward abominations. Have you not known some examples in this kind?

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Lastly,¹ If it be such a judgment to eat unclean things with the Gentiles, even meat to satisfy their hunger, Certainly then it is a fearful evil for any of the Saints to partake with ungodly men in unclean wicked worship. There might be as much excuse for this as one could imagine, why Lord (they might say) shall we starve? True, they might no question eat that which was unclean rather than starve, but yet it was a great misery that they were in, that they could have nothing to eat but that which was unclean: but now the other is, not only an affliction, but sin, and indeed the moral of it is to show the great evil that there is in joining with any way of false worship; to join false worship it is a