An Exhortation to the Point.
WHEN you come together, to exhort each other, and comfort one another, don’t abuse other people; don’t talk about other folks; don’t mention other churches. If you have “the faith,” show it, explain it, teach it, enforce it, be “rooted and grounded” in it. If you have got a good hope in Christ, give your reasons for it; let others see it, feel it, partake of and rejoice in it. If you have any charity, exercise it, make it manifest; let it flow out, that others may feel it and be perfected in and by it. If you have a “two-edged sword,” use that, and let carnal weapons alone. If you have not learned the—commandment, do try and commit it to memory as soon as possible, and then obey it; and if you have learned, don’t forget to practice it. If you have ever been made a partaker of that wisdom which is from above, pure, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy, do let it be shown by the way in which you employ your tongue, and thus prove that “the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.”