The societie of the Saints : or, a treatise of good-fellowes, and their good-fellowship .. . jjuringyou, that by walkinginthofewayes traced out by your religious ParentS)and deferild in this Difcourfe , you fijalbefure topleafe Godyglad the good, puttofilence the contraryminded^ declare your reverent efleeme of your godlyParents-, in not degenerating from their Chrifliancourfes, and manifefl your felloes to be true and li-ning members of this incomparable goodfellow-iliip with all true bcleevers, the Father, and hisSonne lefus Chrift. Tbits defringyouy and allgood Chriflian Readers to give God
The societie of the Saints : or, a treatise of good-fellowes, and their good-fellowship .. . jjuringyou, that by walkinginthofewayes traced out by your religious ParentS)and deferild in this Difcourfe , you fijalbefure topleafe Godyglad the good, puttofilence the contraryminded^ declare your reverent efleeme of your godlyParents-, in not degenerating from their Chrifliancourfes, and manifefl your felloes to be true and li-ning members of this incomparable goodfellow-iliip with all true bcleevers, the Father, and hisSonne lefus Chrift. Tbits defringyouy and allgood Chriflian Readers to give God the glory y andme your prayers. I leave them , and you> to readfor your direction this following Difcourfe in few-homes, which I have painfully collected for the goodof Gods Church, not without great labour, and muchtime i befeeching the Lord lehovah, blefed forever, to grace my honourable Lord, his vertuoiisLady, and all his noble Children with allJpirituaBblefings, untiUhebringthemto glory, the perfectionof grace. Servant to you all for the /falvation of your foules,Joseph To the %eader* CbrifHan Reader, T is the glory oftruevcrtue to appcareasfiie is,,andtobe fcenc in herowne proper colours: wherein Hie hatha glorious triumph over vice,which, though audaciousand impudent, yet is Jlie afliamed cf herowne face,and feekes to cover it with the vaile of vcrtuc. In-flance Idolatry, which puts on the maske of Piety, Su •perftition of Religion, HypocrifieofSincerity,Covctoufnefle of ihiiftineffe, Prodigality of Liberality, Lewd fellowship of Good, fellow -fliip. Hereupon the Iewdeft companions that can be, ftich as fearc norGod nor iibertie to all Joofcncffeand liccntioufneffc,committing all manner of finnc with greedinefle>Carders,Dicers, Swea-rers, Swaggerers, Gluttons, Drunkards, and others like them, verybealls in humane fhapes, Swine, Dogs, Toads, Afpes, yea Devils in-carnate, take upon them the name of Gnodf&orvrs, and entitle theirabominable
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