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6. It will advance you to the highest communion in this life; even to Communion with God himself. God hath declared himself to be a God of Truth, and therefore if Truth dwells with us, God also dwells with us: if we have Truth for our Possession, then we have God for our portion, and if we abide by the Truth, he also will abide by us. The Truth will lead us, and bring us to the Holy Hill and Tabernacle where God dwells, as Psal: 43. 3. nay, it is that which will make us to abide in God, 1 John 2. 27. and hence one great end of preaching the Gospel of Truth, is to promote this communion, 1 John 1. 3. That which we have seen and heard, declare we unto you, that ye may have fellowship with us, and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. God loveth the Truth, and all those that love it, and his secret shall be with them: and what can this be ⟨p. 80⟩less then happiness in this life, to live in the fellowship of the Great God?

7. It will support you under, and carry you cheerfully through the agonies of Death. Then to be sure (if not before) all other comforts will fail you, every other prop that hath sometime been a relief to you, will then slip from under you, but then Truth will underset you, and keep your souls from sinking; this holds up Hezekiahs heart in the very prospect of a grave and rottenness, Isa. 38. 3. Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in Truth This makes Paul to clap his hands, when he apprehends the time of his offering to approach, 2 Tim. 4. 7. I have kept the Faith. Look over all these things, and now say, what would you have more of happiness, till you are landed in the place of full enjoyment? why Buy the Truth, and it shall be all this to and do all this for you: but then,