Early piety, exemplified in the life and death of Mr. Nathanael Mather, who ...…

RULE II.

Let us Walk with Good men, and we do it with God himself. If our Conscience be not fearfully stupefied, it will tell us, What sort of men have most of God among them. We are with God, when we Walk with such as Walk after the Lord. Let us Walk with good Men in their Principles: It was wise Counsel, in Prov. 2. 12. 20. To deliver thee from the man that speaks froward things, walk in the way of good men. There may happen a Controversy in some Article of Religion, which perhaps thou hast neither Time nor Skill to settle thy own Mind about. Observe ⟨p. 20⟩now, which way the generality of sober serious, praying People go: What gratifies good men is most likely to be the Truth of God: Dost thou see which way the loose, vile, carnal sort of Men go? Then, Come not into their secret, O my Soul.

Let us Walk with Good men, and we do it with God himself. If our Conscience be not fearfully stupified, it will tell us, What sort of men have most of God among them. We are with God, when we Walk with such as Walk after the Lord. Let us Walk with good Men in their Principles: It was wise Counsel, in Prov. 2. 12. 20. To deliver thee from the man that speaks froward things, walk in the way of good men. There may happen a Controversie in some Article of Religion, which perhaps thou hast neither Time nor Skill to settle thy own Mind about. Observe ⟨p. 20⟩now, which way the generality of sober serious, praying People go: What gratifies good men is most likely to be the Truth of God: Dost thou see which way the loose, vile, carnal sort of Men go? Then, Come not into their secret, O my Soul.