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Fourthly, no communion, no society in which there is so much profit and benefit, as to be amongst these. ¹As Abigail said to David, The Lord shall bind up the soul of my Lord in the bundle of life: to be amongst Gods people, is to be bound up in the bundle of life; much good we enjoy in them, and the more communion we have, the more interest we have in all their gifts, and graces, and prayers: and therefore we read of Daniel, when he had a great work to do, how he makes use of that interest he had in the prayers of the godly, Daniel 2. 17, 18. It is a great blessing to have an interest in the prayers of the Saints, and so in all their gifts, 1 Cor. 3. 22, 23. Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, &c. all are yours, and you are Christs: as if he should say, there need no such envying one at another, to say, I am of Paul, and another of Apollos, and another of Cephas, for all are yours; all the gifts, and graces of all the worthies of the Lord, are all yours, they are all for your good, and you have interest in them all: in communion with the Saints, there is watching over one another, and quickening one another, and admonishings, and wholesome counsels, and stirring up the graces of God that are in one another: Have you not felt your selves, when you have come away from a spiritual communion, to come away with hearts raised, and spirits inflamed for God, and so strengthened, that your resolutions have been up, to do or suffer any thing for the ⟨p. 253⟩Lord; as in Mal. 3. 16. Those that feared the Lord, spake often to one another, quickened the hearts of one another; and so in Acts 18. 5. And when Silus, and Timotheus, was come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in spirit, and testified to the Jews, that Jesus was Christ: Certainly in their converse together, S. Paul found his spirit wrought upon, and refreshed, so that the Text says, when Timotheus was come, Paul was pressed in spirit.

Fourthly, no communion, no society in which there is so much profit and benefit, as to be amongst these.