to theE P HE S I A N S. :271 ]of,l)e(ly. There are but thefe two things which the Wo;ld purfueth, R1ches a~ Glory. Riches will compafs all forts of pleafures, and If you have thefe two you Ser.XIX. wane ?,othing. Read but Ecclej. 6. 2. he makes a fuppolition of a man to 1./"V'....J whom God hath given Riches, We,flth mrd Ho11ot1r, fothat ( faah he,) he wr:"t· eth 11 othi>tg (if he have thefe he wanteth nothtng,) that hu Sott! catt difire m t hi; t1fe.He~ce therefore,becaufe thefe two a~e things enh,erited,and becaufe thtfe •two put together do fully make up·a fansfachon to a mans delires, he defcnbeth Heaven to us both by Riches and by Glor'y, what is the riches of thegtor;y (fai;h he,) of hi; Inhn·itmJce. And therefore you/hall. find that the reward of Heaven is [et-forth to us by thefe two, byourSavrpur Chnfi, and thefe two alone, Matt. '3· 4l, 44· At verfq;. he layeth forth there th;_glory of that Kingdom, Thm j! 1 , 1fi the Righteo11sjbmeforth JZJ the Stm,. m the K111gdom of thflr Father; there he memioneth their glory. Ag.tm, ( farth he,) t!Je Kmgdomof HeavtJJ u lilu to a Treafitre hid i11 a Fald, there is'Richts, therefore Pro. 8. I8. W;jdom is faid to h,,Vf i11 ha left ha11d Riches a11d Ho11o11r; for thefe are tl)e· great things the World defireth. You have both here. Firfi, To begin with Riches, and Secondly with Glory, apart: And then why Riche.r of Glo>)'· It is Firfi orich Inheritance, the Holy Gho!l in this doth defcend, he fpeaks as to Children, he exprelfeth Heaven by Riches and byGlor;•, becaufe they are the . great things, the only things we are capable of to underfiand Heaven's glory by, and the abundance of good things there. Firfi, For Riches. You Jl1all read in Revel. 21. a defcription of the New .7emfalem, (whether it be an efiate of . glory of the Church here on earth yet to come, which is but the fore-runner, is but the harbinger to that great glory after the day of Judgment, (which I rather incline to, ) or whether it be the glory of the Saints in happinefs hereafter, I will not di(pute that now, however it will ferve my purpofe; Jor if it be meont of the efiate of the Church on Earth in her perfed glory and beauty yet to come, it will argue much more what is in Heaven; therefore it is •ll one for my purpofe whether you underfiand it of the one or of the other.) Do but read out that Chapter and you /hall find there that he rakes all the bowels of the Earth, he fetcheth up all the precious !lanes out of it, and Gold and Chrifial , all thofe things that the world hath turned up trump (as I !Jlay fo exprefs it, ) to com– mend all things elfe, wherein riches ly, he hnth reckoned them up all as you Jl1all find there, to what end? He m:ntioneth Gold to pave the fireets of that Citv, for men to tread upon, fo you have it verfe 2 r. Nay he is not only profufe in his expre!Tions, lavilh (as I may fo exprefs it,) to have a fireet paved with Gold, but he doth feign as ifhe were a Poet, he faith it was fuch Gold as did lhine as . Chrifial, fuch Gold as the Chimicks fay they can make, they can make Gold, ( they fay,) to have the very tranfparency of Chri(/fll, but the Holy Gho!l aim– eth n~t at this art, for it was not in rlre World; but if Gold had a refplendency rn It, rf ~t were as tranfporent asChnjlal, (for to that he compareth it,) it had aperfedron ro rt. What a glorrous creature Gold were, rf together with the weight it had a tranfparency as Chnf!,•l, whereas Gold hath a darknefs in it. In Solomotls time, which was. a time of riches? I Kit~,g. I a. 27. he faith, Silver was m .'ltrufalem as.f/otus 111 thejlreet ; here JS the type now, but it is but of fil– ver, it is not of Gold; but here the !lreets of the New 7ert~fdem are paved with Gold. W ell, the wall of that City, (if you read verfe , 8.) he faith it was all of .74ptr-(/one, there was never fuch .7afPtr in tfue world to make one wall; fiill he feigneth, he is fain as we fay to compound, to make Golden Moun– tains to exprefs the riches of the Ntw Jerr<faltm. And you /hall find verfe 21. that every Gate of the City was a Ptarl: A Pearl as big os a man's Thumb what a mighty value is it of! Here is City Gates, broad Gates, open Gates, for he fait\they were never flmt at all by day, for there was no night rhtre. They arc every one of one Pearl, each Gate is but one Ptar/. Here is the !lrangefi 6Cl:ions that ever were; you fee what vifions the Holy Ghofi make<to fet out the nches of the New .rerufa!em. And he faith that all the Nations fl1 all bring their glory and h~nour into it,fo at V.26.t~at is,theyjba!J brh~g_their riches i11to it,that rs the mcanrog of glory there; for 10 Scnpture we find rt often that glory is put for
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