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Heavenly
riches
irftnitely
good beyond
all
outward riches.
osnd
Chrif
is
Gods
:
---
You will
fay,
why have
they
not the
world then
in
poffèßïon
?
---
There
may
be.
right to
all
things,
&
yet not
poffe
fiion,
becaufe they are
not
in
a
nt
condition
for
them;
all
things are
to
work for
their
goo'
one
way or
other
:
as
all
the kingdomes of the world
are
tubiea
to Jefus Chrift,,
they are given up
to
him for
the
furtherance of
his
kingdome,
fo
all
the
things
in
the world
are
given
up
to
the
Saints for
the
furthering of their
good whole
is
the kingdome
of Heaven.
Seventhly, In
this kingdome are fpi
:ituall riches
that
may
countervaile
to the full,
and are
in:`
nicely
good beyond
all
outward riches
:
thou thinkeft
if
the State would give
thee
fo
much, thou wouldff be
a,happy man;
O that were
a
carnal
heart
tó
prize more the
riches
of
the
world, then the
things
ofthe
kingdome
of
Heaven
;
The
things
of
the kingdome
of
Heaven
make
thee
rich in faith,
rich in
holineflè, rich
in
the p:omirer,
rich in
thy reference
to God
and
Chrift,
and rich in
the enjoy-
mews ofthe
holy
-C
hell
and
his gifts
and
graces..
Now thefe
things are
in
an
abundant manner
communicated in
the
king-
-dome
of
the
Melfìas,
more then they were in
the
times
of the
Law
:
Indeed
it
was
a
greater
evill
to be
a
poor
man
then,rhen
now
:
why
?
becaufe
then there
was
not
fuch a
plentiful! xnea-
fure
of
ipirìtuai riches communicated from
God,
but
it
was
referved to the
coming
of
the
Melfias
that there mould
be fuch
fpiritual riches
let
forth
and
communicated,
God
indeed
to
force few
did
communicate
his
friritual
riches
then,
and
there
were
force
eminent Godly people
in
the times
of
the
Law,fuch
as
Abraham
and
David,
but ordinarily they were very fcanty
in regard of the communications of fpirtruall things now, and
the
reafon was,
the Lord referved rho e fpirituall riches
to the
Meffìas
coming into
the world,
and
hence it
was
that
God
was
more indulg nt
in
the times
of
the
Law for
their outward
eftates,we
read
there,that
if
they
did but
walk
in
ways
of
obe-
dience to
Cod,they
were
for
the molt
part
abundantly
bit
f-
fed
in
cu.ward
things more then he
doth now,becauf: thatnoty
is
the
time of
communication
of
f
iricual
fiches.
If
thou
hac?it
liv'd
in
the
times
of
the Law,
It
is
very like
that
thou
would!
not have
been
fo
póoe,
but then
on
the other
fide
it's not
like.;
that
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