NOTE:  IF YOU HAVEN'T PREVIOUSLY READ THE MAY 17 and 18, 2016, POSTING OF THIS BLOG, PLEASE DO SO. 

.....Beloved, I would that you should remember whither you are going.  If a man be after a few months to be Transported into another Country, never to return, he will send over whatever he can, and make the best Provision he may.....Brethren, you are Strangers and Pilgrims, here, and have but a few months stay in this Country; see that you Traffic much with Heaven.  Christ, is our Common Factor.  O send over to him what possible you can.  Give Alms plentifully, pray continually, be much in Meditation and Consideration, Reckon with yourselves daily, Walk with God in your Callings, Do all the duties of your Relations as unto God, Live not one day to yourselves, but unto Christ, So shall you be continually Transporting into another World, and laying up Treasure in Heaven.....
                                                                                               Joseph Alleine
                                                                                                        from a letter to the
                                                                                                                Servants of God in Taunton
 

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.....These are the little Flock to whom it is his good pleasure to give the Kingdom:  Great are the preparations for them.  The Father hath prepared the Kingdom for them from the foundations of the World:  The Son is gone to Heaven on purpose to prepare a place for them:  The Spirit is preparing them, and making them meet to be partakers of the Inheritance of the Saints in Light:  And should these Brethren, be like other People?
     Brethren, God and Men expect you should do more than others, see that you be indeed singular.....
.....See that you be shining Christians....
                                                                                                                               Joseph Alleine