O they will be green, savory, reviving, flourishing, growing
Christians that shall walk the streets of the new Jerusalem.
Now there shall be a oneness of judgment and understanding in the
hearts of all saints; they shall be now no more two, but one in the
Lord's hand.
Alas, the saints are yet but as an army routed, and are apt
sometimes through fear, and sometimes through forgetfulness, to
mistake the word of their Captain-general the Son of God, and are
also too, too prone to shoot and kill even their very right-hand
man. But at that day all such doing shall be laid aside, for the
knowledge of the glory of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the
waters cover the sea: which knowledge shall then strike through the
heart and liver of all swerving and unsound opinions in Christ's
matters; for then shall every one of the Christians call upon the
name of the Lord, and that with one pure lip, or language, to serve
him with one consent.
XXII. The Ministry.
Importance of the ministry.
The church itself, without its watchmen, is a weak, feeble, and very
helpless thing. What can the lady or mistress do to defend herself
against thieves and sturdy villains, if there be none but she at
home? It is said, when the shepherd is smitten, the sheep will be
scattered.
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