'before by the holy Prophets, and of the Command ment of the Apoftles of the Lord and Saviour.

i Remember the Words of the Lord Jefus: and the Words which were spoken of the Apoftles of our Lord Jefus Chrift.

In the Day of Profperity be joyful; but in the Day of Adverfity confider: God also hath fet the one over against the other.

It is better to go into the House of Mourning, than to go to the Houle of Feafting; for that is the End of all Men, and the Living will lay it to his Heart.

m that Men were wife, that they understood this, that they would confider their latter End, and not put far away the evil Day!

If a Man live many Years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the Days of Darkness, for they fhall be many. All that cometh is Vanity. • We are all the Children of Light, Watchfulness and the Children of the Day. We are not of the Night, nor of Darkness; therefore let us not fleep, as do others, but let us watch and be fober.

P See that ye walk circumfpectly, not as Fools, but as Wife; redeeming the Time, because the Days are evil.

Be fober; be vigilant; because your Adverfary the Devil, as a roaring Lion, walketh about, feeking whom he may devour.

* Eeclef. 7. 14.

2 Pet. 3. 2.

Ecclef. 7. 2.

i Acts 20. 35.

Jude 17.

m Deut. 32. 29. Amos 6. 3. 8. • Theft 5.5, 6. P Eph. 5. 15, 16.

n Ecclef.

9 & Pet. 5.

Put

Put on the whole Armour of God; that ye may be able to stand against the Wiles of the Devil.

• Take Care left by any ineans as the Serpent beguiled Eve through his Subtilty, fo your Minds fhould be corrupted from the Simplicity that is in Chrift.

* Be watchful and ftrengthen the Things which remain, that are ready to die.

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Keep thy Heart with all Diligence ; for out of it are the Iffues of Life...

w Set a Watch, O Lord, before my Mouth; keep the Door of my Lips; for I am purposed that my Mouth fhall not tranfgrefs.

* Take heed left when you have heard the Word, the Cares of this World, and the Deceitfulness of Riches, and the Lufts of other Things entering in, choke the Word, and it become unfruitful.

y Watch and pray, that ye enter not into Temptation; for bleffed are thofe Servants whom the Lord when he cometh fhall find watching.

I am a Companion of all them that fear thee, O Lord, and of them that keep thy Precepts.

Company.

a If Sinners entice thee, confent thou not: Walk not thou in the Way with them; refrain thy Foot from their Path; neither defire to be with them; left thou learn their Ways, and get. a Snare to thy Soul.

Eph. 6. 11. $ 2 Cor. 11. 3.

4.23.

Rev. 32

w Pfal. 141. 3. Pfal. 17. 3. x Mark 4. y Mat. 26. 41. Luke 12. 37. ** z Pfal. 119. 63. 3. 15, 15. Prov. 24] 1. ✩ Prov, 22.25. i *

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u Prov. 18, 19. a Prov.

Enter

↳ Enter not into the Path of the Wicked, and go not in the Way of evil Men; avoid it, país not by it, turn from it, and pass away. For they fleep not, except they have done Mischief.

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My Soul, come not thou into their Secret; unto their Affembly, mine Honour, be not thou united. Come out from among them, and be ye feparate, faith the Lord.

Take heed to thy felf, that thou be not fnared by following them who have fpoken to thrust thee out of the Way, which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk in.

If thy Brother, or thy Son, or thy Daughter, or the Wife of thy Bofom, or thy Friend, which is as thine own Soul, entice thee fecretly to do Evil thou fhalt not confent unto him, nor hearken unto him.

f Beware of evil Workers; and be not thou Partaker with them. Shouldft thou help the Ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord?

8 Ceafe to hear the Inftruction that causeth to err from the Words of Knowledge.:

Have no Fellowship with the unfruitful Works of Darknefs, but rather reprove them...

Thou shalt not follow a Multitude to do Evil.

Be not unequally yoked together with Unbelievers. For what Fellowship hath Righteoufnefs With Unrighteoufnefs? and what Commu nion hath Light with Darkness?"

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a. I wrote unto your (faith St. Paul) not to company with Fornicators; yet not altogether with the Fornicators of this World, or with the Covetous, or Extortioners, or with Idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the World. But I have written unto you not to keep Company; if any Man that is called a Brother be a Fornicator, or Covetous, or an Idolater, or a Railer, or a Drunkard, or an Extortioner; with fuch a one

no not to eat.

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" Withdraw yourselves from every Brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the Tradi tion which he received of us.

He that followeth vain Perfons is void of Understanding.linoda

• Mark them which caufe Divifions and Of fences, contrary to the Doctrine which ye have learned, and avoid them. For they that are fuch ferve not our Lord Jefus Chrift, but their own Lufts; and by good Words and fair Speeches they deceive the Hearts of the Simple.

PAs there were falfe Prophets among the People in old Time, even fa there fhall be falfe Teachers among you, who privily fhall bring in damnable Herefies, even denying the Lord that bought them; and through Covetoufnefs hall they with feigned Words make Merchandife of you; Men of corrupt Minds, and deftitute of the Truth, fuppofing that Gain is Godliness: From fuch withdraw thyfelf.

1. 1 Cor.

Prov.

5. 9, 10, 11.

m 2 Theff. 3. 6.

12. II.

• Rom. 16. 17, 18.

P2 Pet. 2. 1, 3.

1.Tim. 6. 5.

Thi

9 This know alfo,, that in the latter Times fome fhall depart from the Faith, giving heed to feducing Spirits, and Doctrines of Devils; forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from Meats which God hath created to be received; having a Form of Godliness, but denying the Power thereof: From fuch turn away.

• Many Deceivers likewise are entered into the World, who confefs not that Jefus Chrift is comé in the Flesh. This is a Deceiver and an Antichrift. Yetherefore, feeing ye know thefe Things before, beware left ye alfo being led away with the Error of the Wicked, fall from your own Stedfaftnefs.. unity dowoln'

• Confider the Apostle and High Priest Examples. of our Profeffion, Chrift Jefus, who was faithful to him that

an Example, that ye his

fhould follo; leaving us

As ye know what manner of Men the Apoftles were, fo be ye Followers of them and of the Lord; that ye may be Enfamples to all them that believe And thofe, Things which ye have both learned, and received, and heard of them, do.

Be ye Followers of the Churches of God, which in Judea were in Chrift Jefus.

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Confider the Parable of the Samaritan, who fhewed Mercy on him that fell amongst the Thieves, and go and do thou likewise.