Methought the
more I cast my eye upon the whole discourse, the more I saw lie in
it. Wherefore, setting myself to a more narrow search, through
frequent prayer to God--what first with doing, and then with
undoing, and after that with doing again--I thus did finish it.
But yet, notwithstanding all my labor and travail in this matter, I
do not, neither can I, expect that every godly heart should in every
thing see the truth and excellency of what is here discoursed;
neither would I have them imagine that I have so thoroughly viewed
this holy city, but that much more than I do here crush out is yet
left in the cluster. Alas, I shall only say thus: I have crushed out
a little juice to sweeten their lips withal; not doubting but in a
little time more large measures of the excellency of this city, and
of its sweetness and glory, will by others be opened and unfolded,
yea, if not by the servants of the Lord Jesus, yet by the Lord
himself, who will have this city builded and set in its own place.
CHURCH-FELLOWSHIP.
It is the ordinance of God, that Christians should be often
asserting the things of God to each other; and that by their so
doing, they should edify one another.
The doctrine of the gospel is like the dew and the small rain, that
distilleth upon the tender grass, wherewith it doth flourish and is
kept green.
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