Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me:
Ver. 9. Do thy diligence, &c.] We want much of our comfort in the want of a friend,Ecclesiastes 4:9. Optimum solatium sodalitium. How doth David bemoan the loss of Jonathan! How did Dr Taylor prize the company of his fellow prisoner, that angel of God, as he called him, John Bradford! What a mercy did St Paul count it that sick Epaphroditus recovered! Philippians 2:27 .