Courtier's Courtesy

Courtiers are 7nore ;poliie 17i their manners than ordinary subjects, because they are more in their princes eye and compa7iy. The oftener we are in Gods court the more holy shall we become, The company of the Lord’s holy servants raises the tone of our thought and makes us aspire after a sanctity beyond what we possess, and therefore we maybe sure that communion with their Lord will be still more beneficial to us. If we learn good manners from the man, what may we expect from being with the Master! From Jesus we shall learn gentleness and love, purity and self-sacrifice, and so acquire the courtly manners of the Prince of Peace, shaking off at the same time the boorish ways which cling to us from having dwelt in Mesech and tabernacled in the tents of Kedar. There is no preparation for heaven like abiding with heaven’s Lord.

Come, my heart, art thou now walking with God? How long since thou hast spoken with thy sovereign.? Arise and get thee to his royal courts, and, once there, go no more out for ever. Thy heaven and thy preparation for heaven both lie in thy Lord.