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Sinful examples are very enticing and encouraging; many have found it so to their eternal undoing. Those that have no ears to hear what you say have many eyes to see what you do. Bad princes make bad subjects, bad masters make bad servants, bad parents make bad children, and bad husbands make bad wives. It is easier for the bad to corrupt the good than for the good to convert the bad. It is easier to run down the hill with company than to run up the hill alone.
When you meet, speak one to another of the promises. The promises are the support of the faith, the springs of joy, the saints' royal charter. Are you citizens of heaven and yet do not speak of your charter? Speak of the preciousness of Christ: He is beauty and love; He has laid down His blood as the price of your redemption. Have you a friend who has redeemed you and never speak of Him? Speak one to another of sin, what a deadly evil it is, how it has infected your virgin nature and turned it into a lesser hell. Speak of the beauty of holiness, which is the soul's embroidery, filling it with such an oriental splendor as makes God and the angels fall in love with it. Great Gain of Godliness, https://www.gracegems.org/Watson/religion_our_true_interest2.htm
You that are the people of God, do you often associate together: "Those who feared the LORD spoke to one another" (Mal. 3:16). Christ's doves should flock together; one Christian will help to heat another. A single coal of juniper will soon die, but many coals put together will keep life in one another. Conference sometimes may do as much good as preaching. One Christian by good discourse drops holy oil upon another; that makes the lamp of his grace to shine the brighter.Godly Man’s Picture, 239
If men can find no comfort and yet set themselves to teach and encourage weaker Christians, by way of reflection they receive frequently great comfort themselves. So doth God reward this duty of mutual discourse; that those things we did not so fully understand before by discourse we come to know and relish far better. This should teach us to love and often engage in holy conference, for besides the good we do to others, we shall be profited ourselves. Divine Meditations
Religious company brings fire to our graces to kindle them when they are freezing, but irreligious company brings water to quench them when they are flaming. Nonsuch Professor, https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A74686.0001.001
Converse with the saints that have the Spirit of God in them. They that would learn a foreign language associate with men of the country whose natural tongue it is. Wouldst thou have God and learn to speak heaven's language? Associate with those who by reason of their heavenly nature will be speaking of the things of God. It is true, they cannot propagate their spiritual nature; but it is as true that the Spirit of God may take the gracious discourses which they breathe forth the means of quickening thee. While thou art with such, thou walkest in the Spirit's company.https://tabletalkmagazine.com/article/2025/09/the-grace-of-christian-fellowship/
Can he who finds no pleasure in the company of spiritually-minded persons, or even sneers at them as saints,-can he be said to "have the Spirit"? Judge for yourself.Old Paths, Chapter X
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The sixth bar in the way to salvation is evil company. They will take us off our work. The sweet waters lose their freshness, when they run into the salt water; Christians lose their freshness and savouriness, among the wicked. Christ's doves will be sullied by lying among these filthy pots. Sinful company is like the water in a smith's forge which quenches the iron, be it ever so hot; such evil company cools good affections.https://www.gracegems.org/Watson/one_thing_necessary.htm
It is not so much your loose companions that are your tempters to evil as the devil in and by them. When Peter tried to persuade his Master to avoid sufferings, Christ rebuked the evil spirit that spoke in Peter and said, "Get thee behind me, Satan." Peter was set to work by Satan; therefore Christ calls him by the name of Satan. Those wicked men are instruments in the hand of Satan who propose carnal comforts as a cure for spiritual wounds.
Evil company, commonly termed goodfellows - but indeed the devil's chief instruments to hinder a wretched sinner from repentance and piety. The first sign of God's favor to a sinner is to give him grace to forsake evil companions. https://gracegems.org/24/practice_of_piety4.htm
Though the pelican be a melancholy bird, and naturally inclineth to deserts, yet when they remove their places, they go in companies, and the first stay for the last, as they fly over the mountains, Isa. xxxiv. 11; Eph. ii. 14. Though saints love sometimes to be solitary, as having secret busi-ness with their God, yet they do not forsake the assembling them-selves together.
The evil spirit is for solitariness; he walketh in solitary places, seeking rest, Matt. xii. But God is for society; he dwelleth among his children, and bestoweth his choicest com-forts upon the congregations of his poor. The Father provideth the greatest cheer, and maketh the best feast, when many of his children come together to wait upon him, though each coming singly is welcome to his table.
Let the heat of their lust increase my longing after that place where there is no Judas among thine apostles, no Demas among thy disciples; where all the society will be of one mouth and mind, of one heart and way; where all the company will join in concert, and the whole celestial choir tune their strings, and raise their voices to the highest pitch in sounding thine excellencies, and singing thy praises without sin or ceasing.
It is easier for the bad to corrupt the good, than for the good to convert the bad; it is easier to run down the hill with company, than to run up the hill alone.
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