Bridge's remains, being VIII sermons

4 Sermon on

Psal 119.63. I am a Companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts. P. 70.

1. General head, what this good Company is. P. 72. 1 It is not that the world calls good Company. 2. Nor that a mans own engagements calls good Company. 2. General, why, and upon what account a good man will keep good Company. 1. From the benefit of good Company. 1. It is a help against falling into evil. 2. It will stir you up to what is good. 3. It is a means of recovering from sins and temptations. 4. It will help you out of outward troubles. 5. It is a continual blessing. 2. From the mischief of bad Company. 1. It will cool and quench you to what is good. 2. It will infect you with what is evil. 3. Their fellowship draws you into the Communion of Satan. 4. It will fit us for Communion with Satan and his Members for ever. 5. For the present you will get by ill Company a reproach and blot, III. General Objections answered. P. 87. Application 1. It is ill for a wicked man to keep evil Company. P. 99. 2. It is worse for a Professor of the Gospel. 3. It is worse for a member of a Church. Objections answered. P. 94. Quest 1. What shall we do to avoid evil Company? P. 99 1. Mortify your affections to the vanity thereof. 2. Avoid all those occasions that open a door to evil Company. 3. Part abruptly with them. ⟨image 6⟩4. Be humbled for the vanity of Company-keeping 5. Don't follow the Saints for their multitude. 6. Keep good Company and improve them. Quest. 2, How shall I be able to choose my Company? P. 103. 1. Beseech God to choose your Company for you. 2. Get your nature changed. 3. Get a discerning Spirit. 4. Observe who are most profitable in your Society. 5. Let the friend of your bosom be a man, and not a woman. Quest. 3. What shall I do that I may improve my Company. P. 105. 1. Be humbled for all your mispence of time with good Company. 2. Improve good Company to right ends. 3. Draw forth that grace your Companion excels in. 4. Take heed of pride and envy. 5. Pray over them and for them. 6. Do not rest secure in good Company. 7. Consider what a Talent good Company is when you are betrusted with it.