Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…

2 One beloved Sin in the bosom so alienates the heart, that it cannot love Christ as it should; as one stranger in the bosom of the Wife, so takes up her affection, that she cannot love her Husband as she ought.

2 One beloved Sin in the bosome so alienates the heart, that it cannot love Christ as it should; as one stranger in the bosome of the Wife, so takes up her affection, that she cannot love her Husband as she ought.

II. Thou must with as great care and circumspection watch against the sins of the times, and places of thine ab•de. So long as thou ⟨p. 28⟩livest in this world thou canst not be freed from the society and neighbourhood of wicked and ungodly men, but thy care must be to keep thee as free from their wickedness as thou canst. This advice the Apostle Paul giveth in these words,¹ See that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, because the days are evil; intimating, the more evil the times are, the more any sin doth abound in the time and places of our abode, the more watchful should we be over our selves against those Sins, that we may not be infected nor poisoned by them:

II. Thou must with as great care and circumspection watch against the sins of the times, and places of thine ab•de. So long as thou ⟨p. 28⟩livest in this world thou canst not be freed from the society and neighbourhood of wicked and ungodly men, but thy care must bee to keep thee as free from their wickedness as thou canst. This advice the Apostle Paul giveth in these words,¹ See that yee walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, because the days are evil; intimating, the more evil the times are, the more any sin doth abound in the time and places of our abode, the more watchful should we be over our selves against those Sins, that we may not be infected nor poysoned by them: