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Secondly, to have communion with none but them: to have communion with the Saints is sweet, ¹though we are forced to have communion with the world, but to have communion with the choicest of Gods servants, & with none else, that is sweet indeed.

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Thirdly, to have communion with them made perfect: The best now have many weaknesses, and many ¹frampold moods, and offensive carriages, that there must be a great deal born in communion with the best; but then we shall be delivered from imperfections, there shall be no ignorance, but we shall have communion with those that are knowing, and perfectly glorified. The life of my Lord shall be bound up in the bundle of life; it is the blessing of Abigail to David: Now Interpreters expound it thus, It is a Metaphor, taken from binding up of young plants that are removed from one place to be set in another: Now there is a great deal of difference between a bundle of plants laid in the water, to preserve them till they be set in the garden, and those plants growing and flourishing in the garden: It is a great blessing to be bound up amongst Gods people here, that are plants that have life; but we are here but as plants, bound up and laid in water, reserved till we shall come to be planted in Heaven, and there to flourish: There is much difference between Gods people, what they are here, and what they shall be in Heaven, as there is between a plant that is bound up, and laid in water to be kept alive, and when it is in the Orchard, green and flourishing, and bringing forth fruit.

Thirdly, to have communion with them made perfect: The best now have many weaknesses, and many ¹frampold moods, and offensive carriages, that there must be a great deal born in communion with the best; but then we shall be delivered from imperfections, there shall be no ignorance, but we shall have communion with those that are knowing, and perfectly glorified. The life of my Lord shall be bound up in the bundle of life; it is the blessing of Abigail to David: Now Interpreters expound it thus, It is a Metaphor, taken from binding up of yong plants that are removed from one place to be set in another: Now there is a great deal of difference between a bundle of plants laid in the water, to preserve them till they be set in the garden, and those plants growing and flourishing in the garden: It is a great blessing to be bound up amongst Gods people here, that are plants that have life; but we are here but as plants, bound up and laid in water, reserved till we shall come to be planted in Heaven, and there to flourish: There is much difference between Gods people, what they are here, and what they shall be in Heaven, as there is between a plant that is bound up, and laid in water to be kept alive, and when it is in the Orchard, green and flourishing, and bringing forth fruit.