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…

And truly, as it is an high pitch of impiety for a man to be bad amongst good men; so it is an high pitch of piety, for a man to be good amongst bad men, to retain his goodness in wicked times and places. Singularity I know is charged upon Gods children as their disgrace, but certainly it is their glory that they are a peculiar people, separated from the sinful vanities and courses of the world; for we read, that the Spirit of God in setting forth the height of mens misery in their Natural state, describeth it by their living according to the common course of the world, ¹and the sinful practices thereof.

And truely, as it is an high pitch of impiety for a man to be bad amongst good men; so it is an high pitch of piety, for a man to bee good amongst bad men, to retain his goodness in wicked times and places. Singularity I know is charged upon Gods children as their disgrace, but certainly it is their glory that they are a peculiar people, separated from the sinful vanities and courses of the world; for we read, that the Spirit of God in setting forth the height of mens misery in their Natural state, describeth it by their living according to the common course of the world, ¹and the sinful practices thereof.

1. 1Ephes. 2. 2

III. Thou must with as great care and circumspection watch against secret sins, as against open and public sins, making conscience of sinning in secret, even when thou hast the opportunity of privacy for the acting and committing thereof, and that for these reasons.

III. Thou must with as great care and circumspection watch against secret sins, as against open and publick sins, making conscience of sinning in secret, even when thou hast the opportunity of privacy for the acting and committing thereof, and that for these reasons.