Observe here the duty exhorted to, To consider one another, that is, to watch over one another. This consideraton respects the gifts, the graces, the temptations, the dangers of one another, and is the foundation of all those mutual duties of warning, exhorting, and admonishing one another: Duties, God knows, generally lost amongst us, and with them is the glory of the Christian religion departed from us.

Learn hence, That the mutual watch of Christians over each other, and their mutual exhortations of each other unto gospel-duties, is necessarily required, as. special mean for their preservation in their Christian profession.

Observe, 2. The duty we are to provoke and be provoked unto, and that is, to love and good works; that is no true faith which can be separated from love; and that is no true love that is separated from good works. The great end of Christian communion amongst believers, should be to excite one another to love! Which is the spring and fountain of all good works: And to provoke one another to good works; as the genuine effect and fruit of. sincere love to God and our neighbour.

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