Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

II. Let us not forsake the assembling of our selves together, as the manner of some is: Here note, 1. The thing not here to be deserted is, the [Greek or Hebrew], Our assembling. 2. The thing relating hereunto forbidden, is our forsaking it. 3. The tempting instance hereof, proposed by way of warning to us, is, that the manner of some is thus to do.

II. Let us not forsake the assembling of our selves together, as the manner of some is: Here note, 1. The thing not here to be deserted is, the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Our assembling. 2. The thing relating hereunto forbidden, is our forsaking it. 3. The tempting instance hereof, proposed by way of warning to us, is, that the manner of some is thus to do.

1. The thing not to be forsaken, imports either, 1. Our own Conventions for public Worship; in the general, our open meeting together, as an Organized Congregation: Or Assembly wherein Pastors and their Flocks assemble statedly to speak to God, and to hear from him, and Sacramentally to eat and drink before him; and so to recognize and represent our Christian state with all solemnity in open view together. Or, 2. Doing this without dividing distances and separations each from other, under the notion of Jew and Gentile, or of persons differing each from other about difficult or trifling things. 3. Or our gathering others unto the Church of Christ, by our orderly and alluring Carriage, in this and other points of Christianity; and so the additions, which hereafter God will make hereto. Or 4. The great Assembly of the completed, and Triumphant Church of Christ in the great day of his Appearance and Kingdom, ii Thes. ii. 1. The only place that I remember in the New Testament, besides my Text, that this Noun occurs: And in that place the Word (as here it is) being a decompound, it fitly may be rendered an after Synagogue, or gathering, and how far thus rendering it in the Text is countenanced by the last clause; [that day] I here determine not.