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Therefore let us be careful that we do not rush upon any such inducements unto Idolatry, or schism, or any manner of impiety; for otherwise we shall be sure to be entrapped and ensnared.

Therefore let vs bee carefull that wee doe not rush vpon any such inducements vnto Idolatrie, or schisme, or any manner of impiety; for otherwise wee shall be sure to bee intrapped and insnared.

Oh but this is too much niceness and scrupulosity, Object. (will some say) I hope we are not so weak ⟨p. 173⟩nor so simple, but we can choose the best, and leave the worst: be present at any popish worship, and yet keep our hearts to God: converse with any company, and yet continue honest men still.

Oh but this is too much nicenesse and scrupulositie, Obiect. (will some say) I hope we are not so weake ⟨p. 173⟩nor so simple, but we can chuse the best, and leaue the worst: be present at any popish worship, and yet keepe our hearts to God: conuerse with any company, and yet continue honest men still.

Have you so good a persuasion of your flesh? Answ. certainly you do thereby give me just occasion to have an ill persuasion of you, and to suspect that in truth you do not much care of what religion or of what conversation you be. Others have bin as well conceited of themselves as you, and thereupon have been bold without any calling or warrant to travel into strange countries, and being there, to see Images, and to hear Masses, and to use familiarity with men of all sorts. But what hath been the event thereof? they have returned home, either of no religion, or of a false religion. This lamentable experience doth show to be most true, in many young Gentlemen of the greatest houses in this our land, whose atheistical and profane carriage should be a warning unto others, not to presume upon their own strength, nor to tempt the Lord by casting themselves upon the occasions of evil.