in 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.

8. There are also to be found amongst us, who use small and minced oaths.

9. Some so great strangers to Scripture, that except in their publike
Ministerie, though they read many things, yet they are little conversant
in the Scripture, and in meditation thereof. A dutie incumbent to all the
people of God.

_In our Callings._

1. Corrupt entry into the Ministrie in former times, and following the
course of defection, though forsaken, yet never seriously repented: as
also present entring into the Ministery, as to a way of living in the
world, and not as to a spirituall calling.

2. Helping in, and holding in of insufficient and suspected men, who
favour the things of this life and keeping the door straiter on them whom
God hath sealed, then upon these who have lesse evidence of the power of
grace and holinesse.

3. Partiality in favouring, and speaking for the scandalous, whether
Ministers or other persons, teaching them how to shift and delay censures.

4. Silence in the publike cause, not labouring to cure the disaffection of
people, not urging them to constancie and patience in bearing of publike
bur