V E R. 3. Ephe/lans, Chap.!. 29 to provoke thee to love and fear; and be thaakfull to the Lord, and fo fet forward thy fpirituall falvation. Secondly;We fee herethat the happineffc,that theriches ofthe fpiritu- all man, are not known, not difcerned with outward fenfes, and carnali reafon;for fpirituall things cannot be difcerned,but fpiritually;the godly manbath a white flone, in which iswritten a name,thatnonecan read, but himfelfe ; he is abfolved from finne, and accepted to bea Sonne of YT' s 1 tor.:. Re,.et,t,tr. God, through Chriff, and heire ofheaven : And yet becaufe he is thus made a fonne of God, through Chrift, the world dothnot know him ; even as we know not thefonnes ofPrinces,(were they amongft us) who dwell in Nations far from us. But this muffnot difmayus : Somemen thatcarry a low faile, being ofgreat wealth,living at anunder rate, in regard of that their (late might beare, when fome of greateft (how, but meane wealth, fcorne them as poore ; they fmile at the matter, knowing themfelves in matter ofefface, not inferiourto the other, and they pleafe themfelves thus, that they are unknown : While we have hidden treafures the world knoweth not of, wearenot to be dejeéfed. 1n heavenlyplaces.] Obferve, Where all our bleffingsare given us, in heavens ; there they are firft framed, thencethey come which we have, there being the confummationof them referved; our hope, not thehabit whereby we hope, for after all things prefent, this !hall have no place, xCor.t 3. but the things we hope fist are in heaven, our incorruptiblein- heritance, is heaven, referved for us, whereChrift our head was ; there t 10ha 3.3. DO. g, Saint Paul, thereall things may well be faid tobe,which arc given us in him. Nowwhen the Apoffle did write, Chriftthe commontreafuryof all hisChurches good,was inheaven.EarthlyParentsgive andleave their childrenbleffings, there where themfelves havetheir abode g theygive not commonly inheritances to them in Countries they never did dwell in : Our heavenly fathers dwelling is in the heavens, and therehe givethus our blefïing.Againe,we feethat is theplace, where every thing rcffeth, that I fay, in which it is firft bred, from whichit firft commeth: fifh bred inwater,there they abide,they cannotlive beingout ofit;fo the creatures in the earth: and thus thefe fpirituall benefits,the place ofthem is heaven, there is kept the fulnefie ofthem, thence theycome, thence they (hall have theirconfummation:In this regard,earthly things arecal- led things below,heavenly,things above,where Chrift frtteth;this isour advantage. What man in a ftrange Country, as a Sojourner a while, would not wifh, were he to receive great fummes, that theywere paid inhisown Countrey,for hisule,rather then tendredto him there,where he was a ftranger ± So it is with us, under fayle toward our Country, where our father dwelleth, it is our commodity thatour treafures are there referved. The Ufe is,firft to let us feeour fecurity, inregard ofthefe benefits : Fr. 1. Such ashaveearthly treafures, they lovewhen it iskept in fafety;foit is that the treafure laid up in heaven, is fafethere, neither Ruft cankereth, nor yet the Theefe breaketh in. D 3 This
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