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Secondly, take heed of darkening this by any scandalous way, as those do who profess themselves to be the people of God, and yet by their wretched ways of sensualities, or any other ways, are a scandal unto Gods people, this is an evil, and a bitter thing. Christ walks amongst the golden candlesticks: Every Church should be a golden candlestick, holding forth light in the Doctrine of it, and golden in the holy conversation of it. We must take heed that there be not so much as a dusting of this golden candlestick of the Lord, by the least looseness, or earthliness of our lives. By scandals in the wicked lives of those that are of Gods people, there is a stain and blot cast upon Church communion; here the name of God is polluted; others that are profane, pollute the creatures, and their own consciences, but Gods name is not so much polluted by them; but Gods people do not only pollute their consciences, by their scandalous lives, but pollute Gods name, and it is worse to pollute Gods name, then to pollute your consciences: And therefore know, that joining to the Saints is an aggravation to every sin you commit afterward; and though it be true, that union with the people of God is a mitigation of every cross and affliction, yet it is an aggravation to every sin.

Secondly, take heed of darkning this by any scandalous way, as those do who profess themselves to be the people of God, and yet by their wretched ways of sensualities, or any other ways, are a scandal unto Gods people, this is an evil, and a bitter thing. Christ walks amongst the golden candlesticks: Every Church should be a golden candlestick, holding forth light in the Doctrine of it, and golden in the holy conversation of it. We must take heed that there be not so much as a dusting of this golden candlestick of the Lord, by the least looseness, or earthliness of our lives. By scandals in the wicked lives of those that are of Gods people, there is a stain and blot cast upon Church communion; here the name of God is polluted; others that are prophane, pollute the creatures, and their own consciences, but Gods name is not so much polluted by them; but Gods people do not onely pollute their consciences, by their scandalous lives, but pollute Gods name, and it is worse to pollute Gods name, then to pollute your consciences: And therefore know, that joyning to the Saints is an aggravation to every sin you commit afterward; and though it be true, that union with the people of God is a mitigation of every cross and affliction, yet it is an aggravation to every sin.