The works of George Swinnock, M.A

Its said of the Apostles, that being dismissed from the Council, they went [Greek or Hebrew] to their own, or to their proper and peculiar (friends,) so the Original; we translate it, to their own company, because Saints are a select Corporation by themselves, their privilege or Charter is peculiar, and so are their Companions, and the persons interested in it. The Citizens of Zion are a distinct company from the rest of the World, and when they can get loose from their Persecutors, they go to them of their own livery. The Disciples were amongst the High-Priests and wicked men, by constraint, and to their grief; but amongst their own only, out of choice, and with their good-will. Birds of a Feather will flock together. Servants of the same Lord, if faithful, will join with their fellows, and not with the servants of his Enemy.

Its said of the Apostles, that being dismist from the Council, they went 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 to their own, or to their proper and peculiar (friends,) so the Original; we translate it, to their own company, because Saints are a select Corporation by themselves, their priviledge or Charter is peculiar, and so are their Companions, and the persons interested in it. The Citizens of Sion are a distinct company from the rest of the World, and when they can get loose from their Persecutors, they go to them of their own livery. The Disciples were amongst the High-Priests and wicked men, by constraint, and to their greif; but amongst their own onely, out of choice, and with their good-will. Birds of a Feather will flock together. Servants of the same Lord, if faithful, will joyn with their fellows, and not with the servants of his Enemy.

Abraham sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange Country, dwelling in Tabernacles (not with the Canaanites, the Natives, though he dwelt amongst them, but) with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with ⟨p. 103⟩him of the same promise, Heb. 11.9. When a man comes into an Inn, you may give a notable guess for what place he intends, by the Company he inquires after; His Question, (Do you know of any travailing towards London? I should he heartily glad of their company,) will speak his mind and his course; If he hear of any bound for another coast, he regards them not; but if he know of any honest passengers that are to ride in the same road, and set out for the same City with himself, he sends to them, and begs the favour of their good company. This World is an Inn, all men are in some sense Pilgrims and Strangers, they have no abiding place here; now the Company they enquire after, and delight in, whether those that walk in the broad way of the flesh, or those who walk in the narrow way of the Spirit, will declare whether they are going towards Heaven, or towards Hell. A wicked man will not desire the company of them who walk in a contrary way, nor a Saint delight in their society who go cross to his journey. Can two walk together except they be agreed? They who walk together, are supposed to have one will, because they are seen to have one way,