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…

4 Avoid their company, because we shall thereby encourage and embolden them in their wicked and profane courses. For it is a great encouragement unto wicked men to go on in their wicked and sinful courses, when as they are countenanced with the society of the godly.

4 Avoid their company, because wee shall thereby incourage and imbolden them in their wicked and prophane courses. For it is a great incouragement unto wicked men to go on in their wicked and sinful courses, when as they are countenanced with the society of the godly.

Now for the better fitting and preparing thy self for profitable converse when thou art in company, I shall only give thee these two advises.

Now for the better fitting and preparing thy self for profitable converse when thou art in company, I shall onely give thee these two advises.

1 That thou mayest be the better furnished with matter for useful discourse, often, and seriously meditate with thy self on some general head of Divinity; as of our wretched and miserable condition by nature, of the all-sufficiency of Christs sacrifice, of the vanity and uncertainty of all earthly things; of the shortness of this life; of the day of judgement. By often contemplating of the•• things, or the like, with thy self in secret, thou wilt be bett•• ••abled to talk and discourse of them […] ⟨p. 45⟩of others, and that to their good and edification, as well as to thine own.