“IN your private society seek unanimously your own and each other’s spiritual good; not only agreeing in your affairs and civil converse, but having one heart and mind as Christians. To eat and drink together, if you do no more, is such society as beasts may have; to do these in excess, to guzzle and drink intemperately together, is a society worse than that of beasts, and below them; to discourse together of civil business, is to converse as men. But the peculiar converse of Christians in that notion as born again to immortality, an unfading inheritance above, is to further one another towards that, to put one another in mind of heaven and things that are heavenly. And it is strange that men that profess to be Christians, when they meet either fill one another’s ears with lies and profane speeches, or with vanities and trifles, or at the best with the affairs of the earth, and not a word of those things that should most possess the heart, and where the mind should be most set but are ready to reproach and taunt any such thing in others. What! are you ashamed of Christ and religion? Why do you profess it then? Is there such a thing think ye, as communion of saints? If not, why do you say you believe it? ‘Tis a truth, think of it as you will; the public ministry will profit little anywhere where a people, or some part of them, are not thus one, and do not live together as of one mind, and use diligently all due means of edifying one another in their holy faith.”―Leighton.