A Body of Practical Divinity

4. Such as destroy others by getting them into bad Company, and so making them Proselytes to the Devil. Vitia in proximum quemque transiliunt. Sen. A Man cannot live in the Ethiopian Climate, but he will be discoloured with the Sun; nor he cannot be in bad Company, but he will partake of their Evil. One Drunkard makes another; as the Prophet speaks in another Sense, Jer. 35.5. I set before them pots full of Wine and Cups, and said unto them, Drink ye Wine. So the Wicked set Pots of Wine before others, and make them drink till Reason be stupefied, and Lust inflamed. These are guilty of the Breach of this Commandment, they are Murderers of Souls. How sad will it be with these, who have not only their own ⟨p. 364⟩Sins, but the Blood of others to answer for. So much for the First thing forbidden in the Commandment, the Injuring of others.

4. Such as destroy others by getting them into bad Company, and so making them Proselytes to the Devil. Vitia in proximum quemque transiliunt. Sen. A Man cannot live in the Aethiopian Climate, but he will be discoloured with the Sun; nor he cannot be in bad Company, but he will partake of their Evil. One Drunkard makes another; as the Prophet speaks in another Sence, Ier. 35.5. I set before them pots full of Wine and Cups, and said unto them, Drink ye Wine. So the Wicked set Pots of Wine before others, and make them drink till Reason be stupified, and Lust enflamed. These are guilty of the Breach of this Commandment, they are Murderers of Souls. How sad will it be with these, who have not only their own ⟨p. 364⟩Sins, but the Blood of others to answer for. So much for the First thing forbidden in the Commandment, the Injuring of others.