Tve bejl 'Bargaine. . . I conclufions;Theprinciples ofdivine TruthareSmptt~ra "'""""• D•n.IO, The Lawof Truth,M•I.>. TheWordofTrath,>Cor.6. Thenecdfaryconclufionsarethey, which A upon irrefragable inferences are deduce~ from thofe hol_y grounds: Shortly then, every parcel! of Divine Truth, whether la~d do":ne m Scnpwre, or drawneneceifarily from Scripture, is this Merczm•mum f•crNm, whiCh \~e are brddeR t? Buy; Buy the Truth. This isthecommoditic; The match IS,Bt~y; that "• Beat the puce, and payic. Buy it· Ofwhom! For what! Ofwhom, butoftheowner,ofthe maker! 'The owner;lt is Ytrit.u Domini, Gods Truth,Pf. I I 7.His llile is the L1rdGodofTruth, Pfal. 3 I. The mal•er; The werks ofhis hAnds arttruth andjudgcment.P[al.rt I. And if any ufurpino fpiric o! error fhall have made a free-booty ofTruth, and fhall with-hold it inunrFghteouf~effe,we m~ll redee~e it o.uc ~fhish~nds with eh~ hig~ellranfome. Whatistbepuce! Thattsthemamethmgm buymg;For,Buymg !Snoother than B p•llioprttii : Elfe·where God pr~laimes; H8l, ever~ one thatthfrJI~th, """•b"1 JJin< iJRd milkewtthout "''"!'• ~ndwrtho•t prtct, Efay. 55. _Th1s ,saDonauonmfQr.me ofJiile:Buk, here mull be a puce m the hand; God wrll grve mercy, and not fel11t; He will fell TrQth,and not giveic:For what will he felit!Firll,for Labour1the Heathen Poet could fay, his gods fo~d learning for fweat; The originall word h~re ufed is(nJp) Compu• Get il4nJ way, eltherlabore, or prtlto; yea labore& prwo. Thts great foremanofGods fhop eels us we cannot have it under, Pr~. •4· We mull feek for heras filver,and fearch for her as for hid Treafures; The veine ofTruth lies low, it mull be digoed and delved forto the very center. If Truth could be bought with eafe and pleafure, many a lazy Chrillian would bid faire for it, who now relolve rather upon want, than roile. C The fiothfull worldling will rather take up a falfhood for truth, than beat his bcaine to difcerne Truth from falfhood; an error of free-coil is better than an high-rated Veritie;Labour foe Truth is turn'd overfortha task of Church-mea J no life favours eo thefe ftegmatick Spirits, but that of the loilies, Ne1ue lummt, nequt ntnt 5 They neitherlabour nor fpin; This \full refolution is unwonhyofa Chritlian, yea ofareotfonablefoule; and ifwe fhouldtake up no other forthe body, we fhould be fed with hunger, and clothed with nakedneffe; the eanh fhould be our feather-bed, and the skie our Canopie; we fhouldabound with want, live favagely, and die miferably. It wasche jutl Canon of the A pofile,Htthat lab#llrs ntt,ltt hi111 notwe 5 Certainly, he can nevereatofcheheavenly Manna ofTruth,that will not llep fonh to gather it : Heare D this, ye delicate Courciers,that would heare a Sermon ifye could rife out ofyour beds· chat would lend God an houre, ifye could fpareic from your pleafures: theGod of heaven fcornes to have his precious Truth fo bafely under-valued; ifyebid God leffe than labour for Truth, I cangive you no comfOrt,huttbac ye may go eo hell with eafe. The markets ofTruth, as ofall othec commodities, vary: It is the rule of Cafuills· luflitiapretii nM conjijlit in individ••; The Jullice of price doch not pitch ever u~ a point; Sometimes the price of Truth barb ri!en, it would not be booght but for dang<r; fometimes, not undtrloffe, not under difgr"'e, not under imprifonment not under exile; fometimes y_et clearer? not under ]>'line; y:a fomecimcsit bath noq;one E for lcffe than blood : It drd coil Elw danger, M.chAtah drlgrace, fmmte imprifonmenc, the Difciplcs loffe,Iohnand Athan•Jitu exile, theholy Confeffors paine,the holyMar· cyrs death1 Even the highellof rhefe is prtti•m legitim11m, if God eaU for it however nature may tax it as rigorous, y•a fuch as the fcanke beans offiithfull Chrillians have biddenatthe firll word for Truth 1 What doe ye rveeping,and breakingmy ht4rt;ForI am ready notto be boundonly but t•dtt forthenameofthe Lmile[us,faith S Paul, A~. •r. S~in for Jkin,7ea all that a m~n hatiJ will hegiv•for hiltife,[aith Satan:but skin,and life and all, mull aman give for Truth, and not chinke it an hard penni-worrh; Neithe; co•nt I my lt{t dur~nto me tbat I mal f»ijb m1 courforvith i"1 ;faith the chofen veffell, eo his E· phefians. 0 h the hero!Call fp1tm ofour bleffed forefathers, that llucknot to give their dearell hearr-bloodfor but fome corollaries of facred Truth 5 whofe burning zealeco Truthconfumed them before chafe fires of Martyrdome, and fentup their pure and glorious loules, like M•noahs Angell,to heaven,in the flame! Blelfed be God, blelfed be his Anointed, under whofegr.ltious Scepter we have et1joied dayes as much more happie than theirs, as their hearts weremore fervtnt than ours : We may nowbuy vruth "'
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