fora time oft íiherfy. Inch a Brothers or Sifters eftate ; one is poor and low, another tailing. another very reach altered : Now in forme cafes, a privareBrother mai! do more than a Minifter ; the Lord help us, and fiic us up to this work : Nowwhen this is negie.&ed, many faults are har dued. 4. InftcueiLg and teaching one another, as occafión ferves ; Rom. 15. 14. And I my felt aifo am perfwaded ofyou ,my brethren, that you al'fa are fullofgoodneffe,;filled with all 1 now edge, able to admonifi one another. They were able for to in:rnet and reachone another. Ifa. 54. I 3. TheyAwl! be all taught of God. What God teacheth thee, that do thou reach others ; what thou gaincfi by hearing, or by pray ing, or meditation : by putting clue- fhons ro others, foroetimes-,to teach, arkd fometimes to be taught; and this do, ifpoiiìble, in all occaiionallmee.. rings, and worldly difcourfes ; mix with it fomc Tweet truth that God bath taught thee. But now on the other fide, when .Chrilians fl all meet, and a man is the worfe for their fruitleife difcourle, no favour of any thing of God; Let them meet never fo long or often , walking or fitting, this is fad. 5. In Comforting thofe that be fad r 773,1 e,: i4. and 5= 4. ult. Comfort the feeble, minded, andfu,pport the weak,j wheref re, comfort one another with. there words. There are many fad hearts in Gods Church, and fad rhings are as wounds to a mans litn3s, that make him hair. or fall. Oh brethren, be mneh in this Wort:, 2 CO)'''. a. 4. Who com- forteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to com- fort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we our fives are comforted of_God ; ghat a. foul may fay, filch a one came to me, and f ake fr me few 'words to me ; but they were as feg.fonable, as though the Lord had fent an Angel from heaven to fpeak to me; and .of more worth, than Vine had given me many pounds But now, when this allo is negleChe.°d, that one Chrifti.. an hath not a word of enconr gement to another, but dry, and fa,vourlefs difcourfe ; this the Lord takes very ill at the hands of his people, that have received comfort from himielfin the day of their forrow anddiftref e. 6. Reftoring a Brother fallen with a fpirit of meeknefs; Br-eth ren, o f any be overtaken with afault, ye which arefprituall, refarefuch a one with af' irit ofmeek- 'nefe. Oh, how will a poor foul blefie the Lord for fnch a 'Brothers prayers, :admonitions, and, exhortations, when 4$ t
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