The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmouth, August…The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmovth, August…

5. Ab Utili▪ from the great good & advantage which hereby cometh unto the Church; it is as the dew of Hermon which bringeth a blessing with it; it strengtheneth against all adverse power, and ⟨p. 59⟩maketh the Church terrible as an Army with Banners; it openeth the passages for Communion of Saints, that they may derive good from one another by the supply that every joint maketh, as divers members in the body have divers uses, the eye to see, the ear to hear, the tongue to speak, the hand to work; and these Uses mutually serviceable to the good of each other, and Union a necessary bond of this Service, so in the Church or body of Christ, every member hath his measure of gifts and graces, by which he may be profitable to the whole;^u one the Spirit of Wisdom, another of Knowledge; one able to counsel, another to comfort; one to exhort, another to rebuke, what is wanting in one, is supplied by another; and this ^wsupply is made by those joints whereby these divers members are united together. Love is the Vehiculum of all that help and service which one Christian man deriveth upon another; hereby we ^xserve one another, and^y edify one another; ⟨p. 60⟩we bear with the infirmities, sustain the burdens, and rejoice in the comforts, mourn in the sorrows, distribute to the necessities, pray for the souls of one another; By this means the graces of the Church are more bright and resplendent, as the flame which ariseth out of united fuel, is much greater then that which each stick alone by it self doth render; and hence it is that the servants of God do^z love the habitation of his house, and the place where his honour dwelleth, ^aassembling themselves there together with one accord, because he hath promised