; ' I I~ A"temporarie is offem!c:d. 6 ,Ptrf.tn,ru, A Child of Go.d 'ounts · ~the Wo~d- his greateit Trea. fure. "'Verf.I~~. AI Vtrf.1• · The R~.afon, • I ·riour miferies ; .as loffeofgoods, Ioife of friends and reputationwith the World, flanders,di!gra.. .ces, and wrongs: but heealfoh9ldshiffoule (as it were) continuaUy in hithand, as Davidhere fayes of aimfelfe; readie (ifneed be.,. and the times forequire)even'to lbed his bloud vnderthe Sword ofPerfecution, or to lay downe his life in the flames, rataer than to difhoUQur fo mercifull a God, to betray his holy Truth; .or, by.his back– fliding and falling away, to hazard that Crowne of Glory,whichby the eye of faith he bath alrea– die in light. But the .carnall Gofpeller, in time of peace and plentie,while heJives quietly,and at cafe, without .crotre or troubl~, in fa.ire and Sun- · fhine dayes, may perhaps be a ftout and pc-remp– torie Profdfor, but bee---ever fhrinkes in the wet– tillg.; hepul~s in the head inthe fierie triall : ever, · when : tr~uble. Qr per.fecution commeth, .flecaufo of.the word, byandbyhe il ojftnied. - The fixt marke is gatheredout of the two laft Verfes : T-he Childof God holds his Wordfarre more deare thananyprecious Treafure, than the richefl: Inheritance .., . than * great Spoyle.r , than * thQufondJ .ofGold ANd si/~er: It is the joyofhis heart ,; and therefore it indin~s and inflames his affed:ions with love and zeale to doe Gods will, and fulfillalthis Commandements. And no mar– veil though the true Chriil:ian fincl moO: found andunconceivable delight in the Word of God, the Dottrine of Heaven: Forby it, he is borne a– new, and made hcire of Heaven : by the Light of it,he fees his .Name written in the Booke ofLift; never
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