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Eighthly, it is good being with Gods people, because ¹there is Gods special protection; others are but as the wilderness, the Church is as a garden enclosed, Cant. 4. 12. A man regards his garden that he hath enclosed, and bestowed cost about, more then a wild field; the fields have hedges to keep out the beasts, but gardens have brick walls, or wood walls. Isa. 27. 3. I the Lord do keep it, I will water it every moment, lest any hurt it; I will keep it night and day: How full is this? his care over it is such, as he threatens those which shall but touch it, Jer. 12. 14. to pluck them out of their land. Zach. 2. 5. God promiseth he will be a wall of fire round about his people; alluding to the custom of travellers in the wilderness, who used to make fires round about them in the night for their safety, because then none of the wild beasts durst come near them; such a defence is God to his people.

Eighthly, it is good being with Gods people, because ¹there is Gods special protection; others are but as the wilderness, the Church is as a garden enclosed, Cant. 4. 12. A man regards his garden that he hath enclosed, and bestowed cost about, more then a wilde field; the fields have hedges to keep out the beasts, but gardens have brick wals, or wood walls. Isa. 27. 3. I the Lord do keep it, I will water it every moment, lest any hurt it; I will keep it night and day: How full is this? his care over it is such, as he threatens those which shall but touch it, Jer. 12. 14. to pluck them out of their land. Zach. 2. 5. God promiseth he will be a wall of fire round about his people; alluding to the custom of travellers in the wilderness, who used to make fires round about them in the night for their safety, because then none of the wilde beasts durst come near them; such a defence is God to his people.