A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…

3 Their conference is about the highest, the most necessary, the most excellent things: About the most Blessed God and his several Attributes; his will, and works, of Creation, and disposing-Providence, of nature and Grace; about the wonderful mysteries of Redemption, the person, life and sufferings of the Redeemer, his Offices and the performance of them, on earth, and in Heaven, in his Humiliation and his Exaltation; and of the sweet Relations that we and all his Church do stand in, to Christ our Head, our Saviour and Redeemer; as also about the gracious workings of the Holy Ghost, in first begetting and increase of holiness; To open to each other the powerful workings of that Grace that hath raised them above all the creatures, and brought them to a contempt of earthly glory, and set their hearts on the invisible God, and on eternal things, that hath renewed them in the inner man, and made them hate the things they loved, and mortified their oldest strongest sins, and quickened them in the exercise of every grace; all this is edifying sweet discourse to gracious souls.

3 Their conference is about the highest, the most necessary, the most excellent things: About the most Blessed God and his several Attributes; his will, and works, of Creation, and disposing-Providence, of nature and Grace; about the wonderful mysteries of Redemption, the person, life and sufferings of the Redeemer, his Offices and the performance of them, on earth, and in Heaven, in his Humiliation and his Exaltation; and of the sweet Relations that we and all his Church do stand in, to Christ our Head, our Saviour and Redeemer; as also about the gracious workings of the Holy Ghost, in first begetting and increase of holiness; To open to each other the powerful workings of that Grace that hath raised them above all the creatures, and brought them to a contempt of earthly glory, and set their hearts on the invisible God, and on eternal things, that hath renewed them in the inner man, and made them hate the things they loved, and mortified their oldest strongest sins, and quickned them in the exercise of every grace; all this is edifying sweet discourse to gracious souls.

4. And the rather because it is about the most pertinent affairs: They are things that do so nearly concern us, that we are glad to speak with those that understand them. It is our own case, which we hear our brethren open: They speak our very hearts, as if they had seen them; because it is the same work of the same spirit that they describe. Yea when they complain of their Infirmities, it is with our complaints, and they tell us of that which we are troubled with our selves; and we perceive that we are not singular in our troubles, but that our case is the case of other servants of the Lord.