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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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Again Thirdly, You say you keep company with both good and bad, bad and good. But who art thou that dost so? I read in the old Testament, that those creatures which live both in the land and in the water, were counted unclean. I read also in Scripture of a sincere Christian, and a Luke-warm Professor; and what is lukewarm water, but that water which hath both heat and cold in some equal degrees? and what is the lukewarm Professor, but one that can run with both, and comply with both companies. I read in Hos. 7. That God compared the declining people of Israel unto a Cake dough-baked, baked on the one side and not on the other. Why? But because they were for God and Idols too; They could walk and converse with both. So now when men are ⟨p. 96⟩for both companies, they can stand with the Saint, and they can stand with Sinners, they can sit with the Scornful, and they can sit with the Faithful, they can go in and out with Gods people, and they can go in and out with the wicked. What doth this argue, but that they are dough-baked, and lukewarm Professors?
Again Thirdly, You say you keep company with both good and bad, bad and good. But who art thou that dost so? I read in the old Testament, that those creatures which live both in the land and in the water, were counted unclean. I read also in Scripture of a sincere Christian, and a Luke-warm Professor; and what is lukewarm water, but that water which hath both heat and cold in some equal degrees? and what is the lukewarm Professor, but one that can run with both, and comply with both companies. I read in Hos. 7. That God compared the declining people of Israel unto a Cake dough-baked, baked on the one side and not on the other. Why? But because they were for God and Idolls too; They could walk and converse with both. So now when men are ⟨p. 96⟩for both companies, they can stand with the Saint, and they can stand with Sinners, they can sit with the Scornful, and they can sit with the Faithful, they can go in and out with Gods people, and they can go in and out with the wicked. What doth this argue, but that they are dough-baked, and lukewarm Professors?