The saints inheritance and the worldlings portion representing the glorious condition of a child…

The mixture of our communion doth much hinder our delight. Cast dirt into the fire, and it will damp it: ⟨p. 187⟩so the mixture of ungodly ones, their spots and blemishes hinder the delight of Gods people one in another. But now to come among those that your hearts may close with, that you have comfortable evidence, that they are not mere talkers of religion and professors at large, but that the image of God is on them, O what closing is there with their hearts, and what admirable good might we enjoy in the communion and society of them. Therefore know that it is one of the greatest blessings that you are capable of in this world to have the nearest communion with the Saints next to your immediate communion with God himself; it is that which you should so esteem; and your hearts should work after. Mark that Text Psalm. 36. what is said of our joining with the people of God, how excellent is thy loving kindness, wherein appears the excellency? They shall be satisfied with the fatness of thy house. It is a fruit of the excellency of the loving kindness of God for people ⟨p. 188⟩to be of Gods house, and to partake of the fatness of it. To have abundance of Gods creatures, and to have an estate, and friends, it is a fruit of Gods kindness: but to join with Gods people in a way of worship and in the nearest union, that is a fruit of the excellent loving kindness of God to admiration. How excellent is thy loving kindness? it was so excellent that he was not able to express the excellency of it.

The mixture of our communion doth much hinder our delight. Cast dirt into the fire, and it will damp it: ⟨p. 187⟩so the mixture of ungodly ones, their spots and blemishes hinder the delight of Gods people one in another. But now to come among those that your hearts may close with, that you have comfortable evidence, that they are not meer talkers of religion and professours at large, but that the image of God is on them, O what closing is there with their hearts, and what admirable good might we enjoy in the communion and society of them. Therefore know that it is one of the greatest blessings that you are capable of in this world to have the nearest communion with the Saints next to your immediate communion with God himself; it is that which you should so esteem; and your hearts should work after. Mark that Text