The Godly Man's Picture

4 Love to the Saints must be appreciating, we must esteem their persons above others, Psa. 15. 4. He honours them that fear the Lord: we are to look upon the wicked as lumber, but upon the Saints as jewels, these must be had in high veneration.

4 Love to the Saints must be appretiating, we must esteem their persons above others, Psa. 15. 4. He honours them that fear the Lord: we are to look upon the wicked as lumber, but upon the Saints as jewels, these must bee had in high veneration.

5 Love to the Saints must be Social, we should delight in their company, Psal. 119. 63. I am a companion of all them that fear thee. 'Tis a kind of hell to be in the company of the wicked, where we cannot choose but hear Gods name dishonoured: It was a capital crime, to have carried the Image of Tiberius, engraven upon a Ring or Coin into any sordid place; They who have the Image ⟨p. 199⟩of God engraven upon them, should not go into any sinful sordid company. Never but two that I read of, who were living, did desire to keep company with the dead, and they were possessed with the^* Devil: what comfort can a living Christian have, to converse with the dead? Jude 2. but the society of Saints is eligible; this is not to walk among the Tombs, but among beds of spices. Believers are Christs garden, their graces are the flowers, their savoury discourse is the fragrant smell of these flowers.

5 Love to the Saints must bee Social, wee should delight in their company,