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pany, when your calling is to be with them, in a common and colder kind of fellowship, by a common love, whereby you wish well to all, and would do good to all; yet you must not converse with them with such special and intimate Christian familiarity and delight, Psa. xvi. 3, as you do with the saints that are excellent. Thus do, and the Lord can and will keep you in the midst of Egypt and Babel, as he did Joseph and Daniel, if he call you to it.

Thirdly, As soon as possibly you can, depart out of their company, when you find not in them the lips of knowledge, Prov. xiv. 7, or when they any way declare that they have only a form, but deny the power of godliness, 2 Tim. iii. 5. From such turn away, saith the apostle. And so use the preservatives prescribed, or any other, as prudence shall direct, that you depart not more evil, or less good, than when you came together.

SECT. 3. DIRECTIONS FOR CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.

Now concerning good company, or Christian fellowship, First, highly esteem it, Psa. xvi. 3, and much desire it. For you should love the brotherhood, 1 Peter ii. 17, however the world scoff at it; and forsake not the fellowship, Heb. x. 25, or the company of the godly, as the manner of some is; but, with David, as much as may be, be a companion with them that fear God, Psa. cxix. 63.

Secondly, When you are in good company, you must express all brotherly love; improving your time together for your mutual good, chiefly in the increase of each other's faith and holiness, Rom. i. 11, 12; provoking one another to love, and to good works, Heb. x. 24.

Then is your Christian love of the right kind, (1.) When you love them out of a pure heart fervently, 1 Peter i. 22; which is, when you love them, because they are brethren, partakers of the same faith and spirit of adoption, Heb. iii. 1; having the same Father,