The first and main sin, reaching both to our personall carriage and
callings, we judge to be, Not studying how to keep Communion and
Fellowship with God in Christ, but walking in a naturall way without
imploying of Christ, or drawing vertue from him, to inable us unto
sanctification, and Preaching in spirit and power.
_In our Lives._
1. Much fruitlesse conversing in companie, and complying with the sins of
all sorts, not behaving our selves as becomes the men of God.
2. Great worldlinesse is to be found amongst us, minding and speaking most
about things of this life, being busied about many things, but forgetting
the main.
3. Slighting of Gods worship in their families, and therefore no cordiall
urging of it upon others: yea, altogether a wanting of it in some, if it
be credible.
4. Want of gravity in carriage and apparell, dissolutenesse in haire, and
shaking about the knees, lightnesse in the apparrell of their wives and
children.
5. Tippling and bearing companie in untimous drinking inn Tavernes and Ale
houses, or any where else, whereby the Ministerie is made vile and
contemptible.
6. Discountenancing of the godly; speaking ill of them, because of some
that are unanswerable to their profession.
7. The Sabbath not sanctified after Sermons, which maketh people think
that the Sabbath is ended with the Sermon.