s I ' \ I ~4~. .. Pleart-·freafore~ ·1 have learnedby teaching : experience doth tel us that having to do inothersdoubts, tern• ptations, defertions, corruptions, diretl:s us how to·deal Jn our own cafes : therefore I advife yot_\ lie riot fhie ·in helping the weakt becau(e thereby youdo a double courtefie, to your felves anti to others, by one aa: or mo· tion·of your lips feeding others, anddigefting– yot.1r ownmeat : Befides, this Chrifiian com– munion being @ads infiitution, is feconded . w.ithhis benedi8:ion, and gracious acceprati• . Set Eph. 4 . on: t.he members _of ChriRs ~yfii~al b~d y~ -is, 16. fpeak1ng the truth tn love, or truthtng It tn ~ANielu- love, as the word imports, do grow up into DVT~ d\~ him in all things~ even Cbrift the head, at'ld ¥v,&yli·~rH fo that-which is lacking in one joynt, is made ' ' up by the ufefulnefs of another: and-for Gods. acceptance of ~the Saints holyconference, fee that famous .Text in Mal. 3• 16. But.. that 1' ·' ,which I am urging is, ·the advantage· that your fouls wHhave by it, . one live Coa}laid to a dead one, ,kindles it,. a~ ri'pe Grape put to a greenone, ripens. it: company .is of an affimilating-nature, and grace, likefire, wil ~eget its like, -and it'~ an,aqva.ntage to trade with richMerchants in precipus commodities, fPr ~hen we ffial get wel frocked with riches, So 'cis here, yea obferve it, whena company of Chriftiaps meet together for fpiritual pur– pofes, JefusChrift makes one more, and.he is in fiefl.d of m:1ny more, he walks f,rotri per· ~n to perfot1,- and enquires what1 tqey want,· ·. .· and Jofeph-like, tichlie fils the Sacks of ·their · .,, .. fO(t1S With a~ tranf,endent nrcafure. ·\Vhere thrift·
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