SEAM. XXXVIII.1 THE CHRISTIAN'S :TREASURE. 139 I poor and despised by the great and rich in this world ? yet I trust I am made a child of God by his renewing grace, and the promise gives me a' right to all things. God my Father has engaged that all things shall work together for my good. He has made me a joint-heir with his best beloved Son Jesus, andhas given me a fair and large inheritance. I shall be possessor of every comfort amongst the creatures that is necessary to my su- preme interest, and my final happiness, and Godhimself is my eternal portion. " What if I cannot read my name and my title to lands and houses, to green fields and palaces, in large conveyances and writings under the seal of men? but I can read my name as a christian in the covenant of grace, under the seal of God, and the blood of his Son, and there I find that all things are mine. While I survey the gardens of a rich sinner, every herb and flower there gives me more sweetness than he can find in them all : For I can converse with God my Maker, and my Fa- ther, in every herb, and every flower. While I walk amongst the trees of my neighbour's fields, they Yield me their refreshing shade, and compose my thoughts to divine meditation. I can lift up my eyes to the stately building where my neighbour dwells, and raise my thoughts thence to the mansions of glory : Then I re- joice to think howmuch my inheritance and my mansion there exceeds the most magnificent structure on earth. Thus his fields and his gardens, and his stately dwelling, afford a divine delight to me, which perhaps the earthly possessor of them knows nothing of: And though I have almost nothing that I can call my own on earth, yet, in this sense, Ipossess,all things. My God hath given me so much of the good things of this world, as he saw needful and proper for my real interest : and surely if I might have had all things within my immediate reach, and under my sovereignty, I would not lay hold of more of them (if I were truly wise) than would promote my welfare. Do I sit at the footstool of the rich in the house of God ; or am I but a door-keeper in the sänctuary, yet I can there hear Paul declare the sublime mysteries of the gospel, and while he reveals the wonders of God's eter- nal love, my heart within me believes, and adores, and
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