to lye alone, but sought companions in
wickedness and wretchedness, so he instilleth
the same disposition into those who are caught
in his nects. These therefore partly by hel∣lish
scoffs at those, who even out of ingenu∣ity,
or good education, loath their courses at
the first; partly by pleasing insinuations,
smooth language, especially by that
name of good fellow-ship, wherewith the Fa∣ther
of lies hath sought to grace one of his
own occupations, do hale others with them
in the same wayes of Destruction; and be∣ing
joyned together in a wretched society, by
lewd and lustful songs, scurril jests, abusive
speeches, loud laughter; ruffian-like out∣faceing
better and wiser men than them∣selves,
they encourage each others, they har∣den
their hearts, they drown the voice of
Conscience, they contemn the Word of God
they fight against Heaven with prophane and
horrible Oathes, and (as it were) seal al
their leagues of pretended good-fellow-ship
even with a resolved , a decreed for∣getfulness
of God, and so of godliness, o
Death and of Judgment to come, wherewith
St. Paul made even his Heathen Judge to
shake, as he sate upon the Bench.2. Secondly, and especially, a company o
grounded Drunkards, that are up and down i0
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