3. Then they shun the company of lively and warm Christians.

4. After that they grow cold to public duty, as hearing, reading,

godly conference, and the like.

5. Then they begin to pick holes, as we say, in the coats of some

of the godly; and that devilishly, that they may have a seeming

colour to throw religion (for the sake of some infirmity they have

espied in them) behind their backs.

6. Then they begin to adhere to, and associate themselves with,

carnal, loose, and wanton men.

7. Then they give way to carnal and wanton discourses in secret;

and glad are they if they can see such things in any that are

counted honest, that they may the more boldly do it through their

example.

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