The Godly Man's Picture

2. By evil Examples: Examples speak louder than Precepts; but principally the examples of great ones are influential: Men placed on high, are like the Pillar of Cloud, when that went, Israel went: If great ones move irregularly, others will follow after.

3. By evil Company; the breath of sinners is^* infectious; they are like the Dragon which cast a flood out of his mouth, Revel. 12. 15. They cast a flood of oaths out of their mouth: Wicked tongues are set on fire of Hell, Jam. 3. 6. The sinner finds Match and Powder, and the Devil finds fire: The wicked are ever setting snares, and temptations before others; as the Prophet speaks in another sense, Jer. 35. 5. I set pots full of wine, and cups, and said unto them drink. So the wicked set pots of Wine before others, and make them drink till Reason be stupefied, and Lust inflamed: These are prodigiously wicked, who make men Proselytes to the Devil: How sad will their doom be, who besides their own sins, have the blood of others to answer for?

3. By evil Company; the breath of sinners is^* infectious; they are like the Dragon which cast a floud out of his mouth, Revel. 12. 15. They cast a floud of oaths out of their mouth: Wicked tongues are set on fire of Hell, Iam. 3. 6. The sinner finds Match and Powder, and the Devil finds fire: The wicked are ever setting snares, and temptations before others; as the Prophet speaks in another sense,