from under the means which ordinarily are made use of to do good to
the soul. For a Family where Godliness is professed, and
practised, is Gods Ordinance, the place which he has appointed to
teach young ones the way and fear of God. {62b} Now to be put out
of such a Family into a bad, a wicked one, as Mr. Badman was, must
needs be in Judgment, and a sign of the anger of God. For in
ungodly Families men learn to forget God, to hate goodness, and to
estrange themselves from the wayes of those that are good.

2. In Bad Families, they have continually fresh Examples, and also
incitements to evil, and fresh encouragements to it too. Yea
moreover, in such places evil is commended, praised, well-spoken
of, and they that do it, are applauded; and this, to be sure, is a
drowning Judgement.

3. Such places are the very haunts and Walks of the infernal
Spirits, who are continually poysoning the Cogitations and Minds of
one or other in such Families, that they may be able to poyson
others. Therefore observe it, usually in wicked Families, some
one, or two, are more arch for wickedness then are any other that
are there. Now such are Satans Conduit-pipes; for by them he
conveighs of the spawn of Hell, through their being crafty in
wickedness, into the Ears and Souls of their Companions. Yea, and
when they have once conceived wickedness, they travel with it, as
doth a woman with Child, till they have brought it forth; Behold,
he travelleth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and
brought forth falshood. {62c} Some men, as here is intimated in
the Text, and as was hinted also before, have a kind of mystical,
but hellish copulation with the Devil, who is the Father, and their
Soul the Mother of sin and wickedness; and they, so soon as they