'- 0 , r tleart-Treafure: . uponDivine thingsas infallibly certain.,and in... comparablyexceUent: thofe were accounted (en.fual a~d bruidfu Phi lofophers, that ( tol– .loWing EpicurtN) placed, mans chief happi– nds in matters of fenfe, as profit, plealure, ~ honour-But thofe were the mofi fublime, ,a_nd (in afort ) Divine, that placed the ({t~m- , t»Nm bonum, or) chiefgood, inwhat isabo,-e, or oppofite to (enfe, as in the good things of 'r the minde, and moral venue ; Caa Heathens ,.by the light of natnre and teafon fee a reality. 3c excellencyin things invilible to fenfc~& fhal not Chrjftians much more? iris a fhame for a Saint,inligbtnedby the Spirit, to be io h!car• 1 Cor.:..to. ey~d, _as not to fee afar off, or view fpiritual 2. Pet. I ·. 'J. objech: 'cis the dutyand property ofa Chrifiianto over-look' things that are feen,and in- . ' tently to behold things not feen, ~Cor. 4~1 s. 0 Sirs, couldyou as really {ee,witl1 a{pirJc,u– -al eye fpiritLial goods, as you .'an wi[,h your . . \ _ natural eyes behold corporal objetls, what an'advantage would it Be to von ? Could you - , make Gofpel-myfieries , and merciesas fen– fual to your(elves, as a rich, mans Bag~ and · · Lands are to him, ·what · an exceeding help woi.l~d it be? This made Mofes forfake the v:ifib!eglory of e/Egypt., and endure intolie• _ .. rable things in the vVilderne!Ie ~ for he faw · him that was invifible ,- Heb. I r. 27. Thus Chrifiians are to realize Divine Things, and . account higb.ly of then1, Jor no .man will . tr:eafure up that which he accounts not ·as O?!'fi excellelit, the rpaKir:Jg light of Gofpel· , gra;ce,- is the gteat 'reafon why fo many_ go · · wu~ ' ' I /
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