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<em>"But mixed themselves with the nations, and learned their works. They served their idols, which became a snare to them."</em> Psalm 106:35, 36<br><br>
The 'carnal professors' of the day see nothing wrong, nothing amiss, nothing inconsistent in their conduct or spirit—though they are <em>sunk in worldliness, carnality or covetousness!</em>But where there is divine life, where the blessed Spirit moves upon the heart with His sacred operations and secret influences, there will be light to see, and a conscience to feel, what is wrong, sinful, inconsistent, and improper.<br><br>
It is but too evident that we cannot be mixed up with the professors of the day without drinking, in some measure, into their spirit and being more or less influenced by their example. We can scarcely escape the influence of those with whom we come much and frequently into contact. If they are <em>dead,</em> they will often benumb us with their corpse-like coldness. If they are <em>light and trifling,</em> they will often entangle us in their carnal levity. If they are <em>worldly and covetous,</em> they may afford us a shelter and an excuse for our own worldliness and covetousness.<br><br>
Abhor that loose profession—that ready compliance with everything which feeds the pride, worldliness, covetousness, and lusts of our depraved nature—which so stamps the present day with some of its most perilous and dreadful characters. They have a mere form of godliness, but deny the power. <strong>Have nothing to do with them!</strong>