A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful

ate and condition / dwellinge or beinge in a place where they be not compelled to communicate with wicked supersticions. And are them selues vnlearned and vnable to confesse and defende the truithe / maye not vse famyliar conuersation with the vnbeleuers.

These men ar not in that condition that the learned be / of whom I dyd speake before / for they cannot teache the vnbeleuers / yea they be not able to defende the gospell of christe from the blasphemie of the vnbeleuers / neither can they deliuer them selues from suche false snares as the vnbeleauers shall laye for them: Wherfor they must not haue familiar conuersacion with them / through which they shall thus throwe themselues into perill / and ieoperdie: Except that they can assure themselues of such strenghth / that they shall not yealde vnto the wickednes of the vnbeleuers. Otherwise / if they shall happen to dwell togither in one place with the vnfaithfull: Lett them take goode heede that they do lyue an holy lyfe amonge them: And for the rest /