THE doctrine of the Gospel is like the dew and the small rain that distilleth upon the tender grass where-with it doth flourish and is kept green (Deut. xxxii., 2). Christians are like the several flowers in a garden, that have upon each of them the dew of heaven, which being shaken with the wind they let fall their dew at each other’s roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of one another. For Christians to commune saviourly of God’s matters one with another, it is as if they opened to each other’s nostrils boxes of perfume. Saith Paul to the Church of Rome, “I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established; that is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me” (Roms. i, 11, 12). Christians should be often affirming the doctrine of grace, and justification by it one to another.—John Bunyan
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