A62040:318
The works of George Swinnock, M.A
The works of George Swinnock, M.A. containing these several treatises ...
London: printed by J.B. for Tho. Parkhurst, 1665
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There are a sort of men, that like Mercury, the Good-fellow Planet, are according to their company, good if with the good, bad if in conjunction with bad; but the true Christian hath not so learned Christ. He who like the Mariner, changeth his course upon the change of the weather, is but an unsound Professor. We read of some that feared the Lord, and served graven Images, 2 King. 17. 41. They divided themselves between the true God and Idols; As the Jewish Children, which spake half Hebrew, and half in the language of Ashdod, (Nehem. 13. 24.) and as some Gentlemen that speak Italian, when they are amongst Italians; French amongst French men; and order their language answerable to their ⟨p. 174⟩associates. So some that would be called Christians, change themselves both for words and deeds, into the nature of their Companions. Amongst the godly they own God, but amongst the wicked they deny him; They alter their colour as the Sole (say Naturalists) according to that which is nearest, and expose the Name of God, rather then their own, to contempt. Beza saith of Baldwinus, that he had, Religionem ephemeram, A Religion for every day; Some men have a deportment suitable to all with whom they converse, resembling such as are sinful, and dissembling with them that are holy. These are either ashamed or afraid of Christ, both which are unreasonable.
There are a sort of men, that like Mercury, the Good-fellow Planet, are according to their company, good if with the good, bad if in conjunction with bad; but the true Christian hath not so learned Christ. He who like the Mariner, changeth his course upon the change of the weather, is but an unsound Professour. We read of some that feared the Lord, and served graven Images, 2 King. 17. 41. They divided themselves between the true God and Idols; As the Jewish Children, which spake half Hebrew, and half in the language of Ashdod, (Nehem. 13. 24.) and as some Gentlemen that speak Italian, when they are amongst Italians; French amongst French men; and order their language answerable to their ⟨p. 174⟩