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& take heed of being out of y^e family as you belong to at unseasonable

times, & late; as at weddings it is y^e dangerous liberty sum take young

men & mayds to be out very late you little think what danger & evill

you expose your selves to; you have noe promise of gods keeping when you

are out of gods way, If dinah will be from home[10] [------] y^t she may se

& be seen you know what she mett w^th, & let parents look to it to com

mand your houses to keep y^e commands of God & shun temptations to sin

and doe not onely require it but se it be done; if this warning be of noe

use to you y^e time will come when you shall lament it 5 prov 11.12

                    : TO the offendor was say^d

I know not how to speak to you with that sorrow, compassion & terr

or as I ought, I must speak to you as to one y^t have shown your self

exceeding Carnal & fleshly minded : Amongst the Jewes they were account

ed fools in Israel that defiled y^ms with such unclean lusts 2 Sam 13

13. yea the lord compares such to bruit beats to fed horses & ye Ex

pressions of lusts Either in word or gesture are called neighings 5 Jer

8. more particularly let me leev these 10 words w^th you

1 Consider how much & often you have done y^e divells part to be

a tempter to your self instead of avoyding all occasions you took

many oppertunities to make provision for these fleshly lusts that warr

against y^e soul God Sas keep thyself farr from an evill matter[11] Soe

to dally with mayds & women was an evill matter but you kept not

farr from it; but made frequent approaches to doe evill in y^e sight

of god, Come not near y^e door of her house, pass not by it but pass

away 4 prov. 15 you have come near tho not to y^e door of harlots yet w^t

impunity to make harlotts, it seems to me worse then to goe to a harlotts

house for a man to goe to chast womens houses to se if he can make them such

2 you have Shown a great deal of atheism, Joseph when he was tempted by

his mistress, the fear of God kept him how can I doe y^s great wickedness

& sin against God 39 Gen 9, y^e great Atheism of your heart appeared in y^or

waighting for y^e twilight 24 Job 15 & Els wher he tells us y^t y^s is a hai

nous crime to be punished by the judges, for a mans hert to be deceived

by a woman & to ly in waight at o^r neighbours door & soe se what

Job imprecates upon hims: if he had soe done 31 Job. 9. 10. 11. Its y^e

Speech of am eminent devine that usually he is a wicked man as to his State

that waights for a temptation, you waighted many a time it was w^th delibe

ration not upon some sudden hurry of temptation but w^th much contrivance

The girl repented of y^e incorragement she gave you to meet you but

you repented not of your promise to give her a meeting

3 ffalsness in y^e marriage covenant you dealt treacherously with y^e wife of y^or

your youth 2 Matt 14 & caused tears & sorrow to her therby you stand

in these things aganst y^e remedy more y^t 1 Cor 7. 2. he is a monster in

lusts whom y^t remedy refrains not, you forgott y^t covenant of god though

twice both at contraction & marriage you engaged before god whose name

was yⁿ called upon that you would carry it to wards her as become a

husband; vide 48 page 5 particular:[12] angry w^th his wife &c.

4 What a wofull Corruptor of youth have you bin instead of drawing them

to y^e love of god & his ways- oh to be a teacher of Evill is a Sad Evill 28

Jer 16; y^or Comand is to fly youthfull lusts you have but done a little to