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 these meetings of the brethren exercised over the life of Christians is described as follows:

"As in the Sea there are Islands with havens and harbours in which the storm-tossed may find refuge, so God has given to the world, which is driven and tempest-tossed by sins, assemblies  in which survive the doctrines of the truth, as in the island-harbours of good anchorage; and into these run those who desire to be saved  and who wish to escape the wrath and judgment of God."