Bridge's remains, being VIII sermons

Yet fourthly, if there be any such amongst us (which God forbid) give me leave to speak three or four words unto them. You say you can walk with both good and bad; but what comfort can you have in walking at all with those that are bad. Mr. Dod said once, there are two questions which if a man can rightly answer he may have comfort in every condition. The first question is, What am I? The second question is. Where am I? If said he, in answer to the first, What am I? I can truly say I am Godly, I am in Christ, I am one of those that fear the Lord in truth. And if in answer to the second, Where am I? I can say I am in my calling, I am on Gods ground, I am where God would have me be, then I may have comfort in every condition. But if you that are Professors of the Gospel be in company with the wicked, can you say, I am where God would have me be, I am on Gods ground; surely no. What comfort therefore can you have in walking with such company at all? But secondly, do you not know that wicked company lye in wait for your halting, and desire your falling. Mark what David saith, Psal. 41.6. And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity, his heart gathereth iniquity to it self, and when he goeth abroad he telleth it. And mark what his Son Solomon saith, Prov. 4.14, 15, 16. Enter not into the Path of the ⟨p. 97⟩Wicked, Avoid it, Pass not by it, Why? For they sleep not unless they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. It may be you think they love your person, but do they not hate your way more then they love your person, and will you walk with them that hate your way, because you think they love your person; Be not deceived. Do you not know thirdly, That in time of danger they will thrust you into danger, that they may save themselves out of danger. There was a correspondency between good Jehoshaphat and wicked Ahab; and when they went into the Field, what did Ahab say to Jehoshaphat? Read what he said and did, 2 Chron. 18.29 I will disguise my self, and will go to the Battle, but put thou on thy Robes; but see the issue of it, verse 3. Plainly showing thus much, that if a good man hold correspondency with a wicked man, in case there be any danger, the wicked will thrust the good man into danger, to keep himself out.