Yea, and sometimes they grow so warm by this means, ⟨p. 149⟩as that they are fit to admonish one another, to exhort, and to comfort, and if need require, to rebuke one another, as occasion serves, 1 Pet. 4.8. Have fervent love one to another, above all things have fervent love among your selves, this is a special thing: love among Christians, by which love they so kindle one another, to such deep respects to God, and the ways of his grace, and so burn one out of another, much sinful folly and frailty which will be in them, that are so loose one to another, and raiseth them up to that power of godliness, which sometimes they had grown up unto, and now almost lost for want of often joining together, for by so doing, they do what they can to put out the fire; when Satan means to put out the light and life of Religion, out of both Church and Commonwealth, he lays one Christian in one corner, and another in another, that they shall, when they list, go to bed, and sleep, and then a lazy spirit shall come upon them, and so they lye, till they be dead in trespasses and sins: But above all things, have fervent love among your selves, forsake not the fellowship you have one with another, as the manner of some is, Heb. 10.25, 26. Love covereth a multitude of sins. So as that though there was much evil in Christians before, yet their very lying together, doth burn out all that superfluity of naughty stuff that hangs about the servants of God, 1 Pet. 1.22. see that ye love one another with a pure heart, and fervency of spirit.
Yea, and sometimes they grow so warme by this means, ⟨p. 149⟩as that they are fit to admonish one another, to exhort, and to comfort, and if need require, to rebuke one another, as occasion serves, 1 Pet. 4.8. Have fervent love one to another, above all things have fervent love among your selves, this is a speciall thing: love among Christians, by which love they so kindle one another, to such deep respects to God, and the wayes of his grace, and so burne one out of another, much sinfull folly and frailety which will be in them, that are so loose one to another, and raiseth them up to that power of godlinesse, which sometimes they had grown up unto, and now almost lost for want of often joyning together, for by so doing, they do what they can to put out the fire; when Satan means to put out the light and life of Religion, out of both Church and Commonwealth, hee layes one Christian in one corner, and another in another, that they shall, when they list, go to bed, and sleep, and then a lazy spirit shall come upon them, and so they lye, till they be dead in trespasses and sins: But above all things, have fervent love among your selves, forsake not the fellowship you have one with another, as the manner of some is, Heb. 10.25, 26. Love covereth a multitude of sins. So as that though there was much evill in Christians before, yet their very lying together, doth burn out all that superfluity of naughty stuffe that hangs about the servants of God, 1 Pet. 1.22. see that ye love one another with a pure heart, and fervency of spirit.
