hat we will meet together once a week to confess our faults one to another and pray one for another, that we may be healed.
That the persons so meeting be divided into several bands, or little companies, none of them consisting of fewer than five or more than ten persons.
That every one in order speak as freely, plainly and concisely as he can the real state of his heart, with his several temptations and deliverances since the last time of meeting. . . .”
The “real state of his heart” opened up freely, plainly and concisely in a regular small group of non-accusing friends in Christ, with prayer — no wonder there was healing!