kept up by visits; and these, the more free and less occasioned by urgent business … they are, the more friendly they are.… We use to check our friends with this upbraiding. You still (always) come when you have some business, but when will you come to see me?… When thou comest into his presence, be telling him still how well thou lovest him; labour to abound in expressions of that kind, than which … there is nothing more taking with the heart of any friend.…”17 This whole section of Goodwin’s exposition
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