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A69130	The Christian mans walke with the most regardable and remarkable steppes thereof, the true rule according to which, and manner how we must walke: shewing the infallible properties of the children of light. Newly published by the author Nathanael Cole, Preacher at S. Leonards Bromley in Middlesex, on the backside of Stratford-Bow neere London.	Cole, Nathaniel, 1584 or 5-1626.	1624 (1624)	STC 5534; ESTC S115975	148,624	710

Iewes became as a Iew that he might winne the Iewes to them that are vnder the law as vnder the law that hee might gaine them that are vnder the law to those that are without law as without law that he might gaine them that are without law to them that were weake he became as weake that hee might gaine the weake Hee was made all things to all men that he might by all meanes saue some 1 Cor. 9. 20. 21. 22. Why then may not wee be present at their idolatrous seruices and the like in hope to gaine others it seemes wee may bee any thing Answ Pauls speech must be vnderstood wholly of things indifferent not of things simply euill as their Papisticall courses and Idolatrous practises are not indifferent but euill and wicked And wee must not doe euill that good may come thereof Rom. 3. therefore not to be present at their Idolatries in hope to gaine them Thus their argument is worth nothing being à longè dissimilibus from things farre vnlike Paul speaking I say of things indifferent which there are not Other arguments there are which are not worth answering as being prooued from holy Scriptures or at least they are taken out of the bookes called Apocrypha which wee reiect as not canonicall but these which I haue named are the maine and from these may be answered the other And thus haue I shewed how farre forth we may or may not dwell with the wicked or communicate with their workes All which should teach vs to shunne so much as in vs lieth the very persons of the wicked and their companie but because as hath beene shewen this is impossible for then wee must goe out of this world 1 Cor. 5. 10. therefore our principall care must be to learne to know them and obserue them and in no case to communicate with their sinnes or to bee partakers of their euill deedes rather choosing with Moses to suffer affliction with the people of God than with the wicked to enioy the pleasures of sinne for a season c. Heb. 11. 24. 25. 26. Yea we should rather die and be afflicted with any torments and suffer any punishment than to communicate with Idolatrous worships and other workes of darkenesse as Shadrach Meshach and Abednego had rather bee cast into the hot furnace then worship the golden image Dan. 3. Hauing now finished to the full this Dehortation and answered such questions and doubts as are commonly alleadged to the contrarie Now I come particularly to the Reasons which the Apostle laieth downe to disswade vs from this fellowship and communication with the sins of others First because they are workes of darkenesse therefore haue no fellowship with them Workes of darkenes These words containe the first reason of this dehortation and by workes of darkenesse are meant the sinnes of wicked men as wicked men themselues are termed darknes Ver. 8. And the force of the Apostles Argument stands thus If ye must walke as childrē of light then ye must haue nothing to doe with the workes of darkenesse But yee must walke as children of light Ergo. And the reason of the consequence of the proposition is this because there can bee no fellowship betweene light and darknes 2. Corinth 6. 14. In which place the Apostle handleth more fully the same Argument Be not vnequally yoked together with vnbeleeuers for what fellowship hath righteousnesse with vnrighteousnes what communion hath light with darknes and what cōcord hath Christ with Belial or what part hath he that beleeueth with as infidel and what agreement hath the Temple of GOD with idols Here is the maier proposition and reasons Verses 14. 15 16. But yee are the Temple of the liuing God as God hath said I will dwell in them and walke in them and I will bee their God and they shall bee my people Here is the assumption and his confirmation Vers 16. Wherefore come out from among them and bee yee separate saith the Lord and touch not the vncleane thing and I will receiue you Here is the Conclusion with a promise vers 17 18. Nothing can be more cleare than this place Againe the like Argument is vsed 1. Corinth 10. 20 21. which may thus bee framed If yee cannot drinke the cup of the Lord and the cup of deuils nor bee partakers of the Lords Table and the table of deuils then haue no fellowship with deuils But ye cannot drinke the cup of the Lord and the cup of deuils c. Therefore haue no fellowship with deuils Doe wee prouoke the Lord verse 22. From both which places this generall doctrine concerning all societie with the wicked in their sinnes may bee raised viz. That the externall profession of impiety and wickednesse cannot stand with the nature of godlinesse but that God is most highly prouoked to anger when wee doe partake with the wicked in their wicked workes especially in Idolatry and false worships And this for the scope of the place Workes of darkenesse By workes of darknes are meant all kinde of sinnes whether against the first Table or second What they are the Apostle sets down in this chapter and else-where In this chapter Fornication and all vncleannesse couetousnesse filthinesse foolish talking iesting whoredom idolatry vers 3 4 5. Again Rom. 13. 12 13. rioting drunkennesse chambering wantonnesse strife enuying and the like are the workes of darknesse which he would haue vs cast off And thus all other sinnes of wicked men whatsoeuer are called workes of darkenesse according to the best expositions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the works of darkenesse are euery sinne Now sinnes are called workes of darkenesse in many respects First because they come from the deuill the prince of darkenesse and authour of all euill Who is a murtherer from the beginning and abode not in the trueth because there is no trueth in him when hee speaketh a lie hee speaketh of his owne for hee is a liar and the father of it Iohn 8. 44. and so of all other sinnes the deuill is the father of them and the authour of them if not alwayes effectiuely yet suggestiuely and occasionally and that of Iob may well bee applied to the deuill That hee is a King ouer all the children of pride Iob 41. 34. and this is a true position Diaboli suggestione fere omne peccatum peragitur Almost euery sinne is accomplished through the suggestion of the deuill and in this sense the wicked are said to see the workes of their father the deuill Iohn 8. 38. viz. when they see and perceiue his suggestions in their hearts thus hee is called the father of the wicked not qui generat per originem sed imitationem not originally but by imitation The wicked are of their father the deuill and the lusts of their father they will doe Iohn 8. 44. imitating him especially in two things viz. in murther and lying as followeth From all which it appeares plainely that sinnes and sinfull workes are the workes

word shewes the connexion of this Verse with the former The Apostle hauing in the former wordes exhorted to prooue what is pleasing to God in this Verse doth presently dehort vs from hauing fellowship with sinne ioyning both together as inseparable for as hee that will please God must not liue in sinne so hee that communicates with sinne and sinners cannot please GOD. Therefore as if the Apostle should say as I would haue you spend your whole life in proouing what is Gods will so I would haue you abstaine from sinne and not onely your personall sinnes but to haue a speciall care that you partake not with other men in their sinnes nor bee accessary vnto them for if yee doe you cannot in any case doe that which is acceptable or well-pleasing to God Hence by the way I obserue Obser thus much That liuing in sinne and pleasing of God cannot stand together Sinne is the onely cause of displeasing of God and wee cannot serue two masters wee cannot serue God Mammon wee cannot serue God and the World God and the Flesh God and the Deuill God and Sinne If we obey sin taking our delight therein making a sport of sinne making it ou● pleasure wee are seruants or sinne and not of God wee doe the will of the Deuill and not of GOD. Know yee not saith the Apostle that to whom yee yeeld your selues seruants to obey his seruants yee are to whom yee obey whether of sinne vnto death or of obedience vnto righteousnesse Rom. 6. 16. Notable for this purpose is that of the Apostle else-where 2. Cor. 6. 14 15 16 17. Bee not vnequally yoked together with vnbeleeuers for what fellowship hath righteousnesse with vnrighteousnes and what communion hath light with darkenesse or what concord hath Christ with Belial or what part hath a beleeuer with an infidel and what agreement hath the Temple of God with idoles c. Wherefore come out from among them and bee yee separate saith the Lord and touch no vncleane thing c. according to our Text Prcoue what is pleasing to God and haue no fellowship with the vnfruitfull workes of darknesse for it is impossible both should stand together This Saint Iohn affirmeth saying If wee say that wee haue fellowship with God and walke in darknesse wee lie and doe not the trueth 1. Iohn 1. 6. whence it is most plaine that such as haue fellowship with the workes of darknesse practising them liuing in them and running headlong into them with out feare or conscience for so much is meant by walking in darkenesse such I say cannot in any case haue any fellowship with God nor approoue themselues the children of light Saint Paul againe to this purpose thus speaketh I would not that yee speaking to the faithfull of Corinth should haue fellowship with deuils Yee cannot drinke the cup of the Lord and the cup of deuils yee cannot be partakers of the Lords Table and the table of deuils 1. Cor. 10. 20 21. So long as we are the seruants of sinne we are free from righteousnesse but being made free from sinne wee become seruants to God c. Rom. 6. 20 22. All which confirmeth the truth of this doctrine That liuing in sinne and pleasing of God cannot stand together no more than light and darknesse can agree together Vse This teacheth vs to renounce all sinne whatsoeuer to cast off the workes of darkenesse Rom. 13. 12. to repent of all sinne to make conscience of euery sin to shun all the occasions of sin to hate abhorre detest especially to leaue and forsake euery sinne and not to haue the least societie or communion with sinne nor to liue in any one knowne sinne for wee see here that any one worke of darknesse wil hinder vs from proouing what is pleasing to God Wee must resemble our heauenly Father in this point wee professe him to bee our Father and to haue communion with him yea as Saint Iohn saith Truely our fellowship speaking of the faithfull is with the Father and with his Sonne Iesus Christ 1. Iohn 1. 3. But God is light and in him is no darknes at all Ver. 5. Euen so we who are light in the Lord and children of the light should walke in the light as he is in the light that we may haue fellowship with God and his children Vers 7. Wee must purge and purifie our selues euen as God is pure in qualitie not equalitie 1. Iohn 3. 3. that there may bee no darkenesse in vs at all no one sinne remaining in vs in regard of dominion It is the nature and propertie of light to expell darkenesse So should wee which are made light in the Lord labour to abandon all and euery sinne and not to giue willingly the least occasion of scandall but to abstaine from the very appearance of euill 1. Thessal 5. 22. Hee that loueth his brother abideth in the light and there is no occasion of stumbling in him 1. Ioh. 2. 10. Thus if we wil approue our selues to bee light in the Lord we must walk as children of the light and haue no fellowship with the vnfruitfull workes of darkenesse Thus much of the Connexion of the words from the word And. Haue no fellowship with the vnfruitfull workes of darknesse These words hauing relation to the 8. Verse containe in them the Second Steppe of the Christian mans walke alluding to a second propertie of the Sunne As the Sunne shineth vpon all things good and bad euen the most filthy things neither can it bee otherwise yet is not infectedwith nor partaker-of any impuritie in those things So we who are children of light cannot chuse but liue amongst wicked men in this world for if wee looke to haue it otherwise wee must goe out of this world 1. Corinth 5. 10. yet we must not communicate with the wicked mens workes nor bee infected with their sinnes In some sort in some case wee may yea we shall doe what wee can communicate with wicked men themselues who are darknesse but in no case must wee haue fellowship with their sinnes and sinfull actions being vnfruitfull workes of darknes according to the former speech of the Apostle Vers 7. Be not therefore partakers with them meaning with the children of disobedience in the sinnes aforenamed for which things sake the wrath of God commeth vpon them verse 6. But as it is Reuel 18. 4. Come out of her my people that yee bee not partakers of her sinnes and that yet receiue not of her plagues In the words I obserue two points 1. A Dehortation 2. The reasons of the Dehortation The Dehortation in these words Haue no fellowship with 〈◊〉 that is do● not commu●●●ate with sinne and sinfull a●tions of these times which wee shall see to bee in others The Reasons are two 1. Because all sinnes are vnfruitfull 2. Because they are all workes of darkenesse Haue therefore no fellowship with these vnfruitfull workes of darkenesse First of the Dehortation Haue no fellowship The