An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…

Thirdly, in that he puts such under the notion of strangers, ⟨p. 86⟩we learn, That wicked and Idolatrous persons should be as strangers to us; we must not lay such in our bosom, to maintain any spiritual society with them, though in some cases, we may have civill society with them. (2 Cor. 6.13, 14.) Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers, for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness, and what communion hath light with darkness, and what concord hath Christ with Belial: &c. These can never agree together: Let no such stranger pass, or be approved among us in the fellowship of the Gospel; there is not only sin in letting such pass with our approbation, but danger; and that a double danger. Both which are assigned as reasons why we should come out of Babylon (Revel. 18.4.)

Thirdly, in that he puts such under the notion of strangers, ⟨p. 86⟩we learne, That wicked and Idolatrous persons should be as strangers to us; we must not lay such in our bosome, to maintaine any spiritual society with them, though in some cases, we may have civill society with them. (2 Cor. 6.13, 14.) Be not unequally yoaked together with unbeleevers, for what fellowship hath righteousnesse with unrighteousnesse, and what communion hath light with darknesse, and what concord hath Christ with Belial: &c. These can never agree together: Let no such stranger passe, or be approved among us in the fellowship of the Gospel; there is not onely sin in letting such passe with our approbation, but danger; and that a double danger. Both which are assigned as reasons why wee should come out of Babylon (Revel. 18.4.)