It is the ordinance of God, that Christians should be often
asserting the things of God to each other; and that by their so
doing, they should edify one another.
The doctrine of the gospel is like the dew and the small rain, that
distilleth upon the tender grass, wherewith it doth flourish and is
kept green.
Christians are like the several flowers in a garden, that have upon
each of them the dew of heaven; which being shaken with the wind,
let fall their dew at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly
nourished and become nourishers of one another.
Church-fellowship, rightly managed, is the glory of all the world.
No place, no community, no fellowship is adorned and bespangled with
such beauties, as is a church rightly knit together to their Head,
and lovingly serving one another.
The church and a profession are the best of places for the upright;
but the worst in the world for the cumberground.