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Bridge's remains, being VIII sermons
Bridge's remains, being VIII sermons ... by that learned and judicious divine, Mr. William Bridge ...
London : Printed and are to be sold by John Hancock Senior and Junior ..., 1673
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Sermons › Sermon 4: OF GOOD AND BAD COMPANY, How to avoid the one, and improve the other.
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3. As they do insensibly infect a man with what is evil, so they do by your company with them, draw you into the fellowship and communion of Satan. For there are two great Princes in the world, Christ and the Devil, and Christ ruleth in the children of Obedience; and those that have communion with them, have thereby communion with Christ: So Satan ruleth in the the children of Disobedience; and those that have fellowship and communion with them have thereby communion with Satan. For how can a man have communion with the Members, and not with the Head? Now is it not a great evil and mischief to have communion and fellowship with Satan? This you have that keep company with wicked Men.
4. And if you have communion with Satan and his Members here, then you shall have communion with him and his Members hereafter. There is a draught of things to come in this life. Those that stand at the right hand of Christ here, shall stand ⟨p. 85⟩at his right hand in the day of Judgment. And those that stand on his left hand here, shall stand on his left hand at the day of Judgment. So those that are bound up with the wicked here, shall be bound up with them hereafter. There is a bundle of Life, and there is a bundle of Death. Some men there are that shall be bound up in the bundle of Life; and some men there are that shall be bound up in the bundle of Death. Take them and bind them hands and foot, and cast them into outward darkness, say h Christ. Here is a company of Drunkards, bind them together, and cast them into Hell for ever; Here is a company of Swearers, and there a company of Opposers, and Jeerers, and there a company of unclean persons, and there a company of more moral civil men. Take them and bind them up as so many Faggots, and cast them into that fire that shall never be quenched. And I pray tell me, Who do you think shall be bound up with these? Shall not those that bundle up themselves with them now? That keep company with them now? Come out of her my People, saith Christ, lest you partake with her in her Plagues. They that will partake with wicked men in their company now, shall partake with them in their plagues hereafter. And,