Whttt i'lhJ Belo'TJed,&c. _ 317 j -fu-lf._y_i,-g-,-od-c-,n-ift__,tfttue,whenin Jforelionit u flAfo- ~I. 1111 ble : we know not when we begin, where we may make an end c: our foules may be carried up toj Heave before we are aware,;for the Spirit will inlarge it felfe from one thing t<J another. To him Mat.aJ. that ht~th foall he given more ~n~more1fill. God gradoufly feconds good begmnmgs.We fee the ,poore Difci~le~, when th~y were in a damp for ibe loffe of Chnfr, af~me totnes, meet5 them, and talks of holy things.ln that very conference>, / ~ their hearts were warme4 andkindled:For, ncxno Luk.2f,3'· Heaven it felfe our meeting rogeth~r here, itis a kind of Paradice , the greatell: pleafure in ·the world is to meet with thofe here, whom we {hall ever live with in Heaven. Thofe who are go0d fuould not fpend fuchopportunities fruit.. lefly. h' d l b r .. L f That gram And t~ t ts e~ , a our ror~negraces o the fUiting rhe Commrmtonof Samts; for tbere IS fuch a fiate,we 'orr:mun~onof beleev·e it as an ~rticleof ONr creed. How fhall S•enrrhul 4 · r I b fi . great e11 , we approve our l'e ves to e uch as haveinterefi e~nfmn,e. unrothe communion ofSaints, unleff(:we have fpirits ~able to_comll?'~nicate good to others!p1ttifull and lovmg fptrus that we may fpeake a word induefeafon. . . What aworld ofpredous time is fpent -in idle converfing, as if the timewere-aburthen, and~o improvement to be made of the good parts of others ~ fometimes th9ugh weknow that which wea~keof others as well as thty does yet nor– withflaoding good fpeeches wilJ draw us to ·kn<Jwit better,hy'giving,occafionto fpeakr(llore of
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