Christs temptation and transfiguration practically explained and improved in several sermons /

2. If they be not like to us, Intimacy and Converse will make us like to them: Every Man is wrought upon by his Company; we imitate those whom we love, and with whom we frequently converse; Prov. 13. 20. He that walketh with wise men shall be wise, but a Companion of fools shall be destroyed. As a man that walketh in the Sun is tanned insensibly, so if we are not aware, we adopt their Manners and Customs, and get a Tincture from them, especially in Evil; for we are more susceptible of Evil then of Good. As the sound get a Sickness from the diseased, sooner than the sick get Health from the sound. Or in the Types of the Law; that which was clean, by touching the unclean became unclean; but the unclean were not purified by touching the clean, Prov. 22. 24, 25. Make no friendship with an angry man, and with a furious man thou shalt not go, left thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul. A Man would think that of all sins Wrath and Anger should not be propagated by Converse, the Motions and Furies of it being so uncomely and undecent to any ⟨p. 15⟩beholder; yet secretly a liking of the Person breedeth a liking of the Sin, and a man is habituated into such a frame of Spirit as they have, whom he hath chosen for his Companions. Now this should be regarded by us, because we are sooner made Evil by Evil Company, than Good by Good Company; therefore how careful should we be to converse with such as may go before us as Examples of Godliness, and provoke us by their Strictness, Heavenly-mindedness, Mortification and Self-denial, to more Love to God, Zeal for his Glory, and Care of our own Salvation. Especially doth this concern the young, who by the weakness of their Judgment, or the vehemency of their Affections and want of Experience may easily be drawn into a Snare.

2. If they be not like to us, Intimacy and Converse will make us like to them: Every Man is wrought upon by his Company; we imitate those whom we love, and with whom we frequently converse; Prov. 13. 20. He that walketh with wise men shall be wise, but a Companion of fools shall be destroyed. As a man that walketh in the Sun is tanned insensibly, so if we are not aware, we adopt their Manners and Customes, and get a Tincture from them, especially in Evil; for we are more susceptible of Evil then of Good. As the sound get a Sickness from the diseased, sooner than the sick get Health from the sound. Or in the Types of the Law; that which was clean, by touching the unclean became unclean; but the unclean were not purified by touching the clean,