...... . - . ·- Heart-lreafore; 11 ·· neve~ bath thebelieving foul grace enough, til · grace be perfeCted and cro"':ned .with Glory , Agracious heart hath an tnfattable appettte) . after heavenly delightS, anddainties; nothing ·fo g'ood as Grace, and the morea {oul bath , of it, the better. ' ' _s 5. It implles Secrefie : A treafure is not expofed to the common view of a,ll men , it was He?:.e~i,h'J pride and weaknefs to lead the Babyl,ni{WMdlengers through his treafures. Treafures are u[ually hid in fecret Ira. 4 f. 3 ; places ; hence we read of creafures of dark· Mat..\ 3 • · i1efs, and hidden richesof fecret places, and a I Per: 3·4o' rreafure hid in a field: So this good mans o Keti1r- ·· trea{ure is faid ' to be in his heart, which Sr. 1a.s T'i1s P'eter calls the hidden man of the heart, none K«ed\lcXS~ can{ee into this, butthe heart-fearchingGod, f!;cu_ltt14 he. thac k~owsall thin.gs onely is the An~to• ~o:;~ths· ' mtftof_thts clofe and htddenman; Men fee the mo !·" face, but they fee not what lies within; hence • · it is that the greatefi and befi part .of ~ Chri- · . fiians treafure, is invifible ; as th roots ofa · Tree un~er the eatth, or thebotto~of a Ship · under water; or rather as a Merchants goods in his Ware-houfe. So it is with a Saints trea– fure; be is aJew inwardly,hisCircumcifion is that of the hcartj in the Spirit and not in the - Letter,whofe praife is not of men,bqt of God; Rom. z. 29. The regenerate foul is the Kingof Heavens Daughrer,which is all glorious with~ JnJ thoughfome {parkliogs of Grace appear Wtthoqt : the befl and the wodl: of a Soul is '! ' ·– hid frc:n~ tb~ view o'f tnen ;· happy were it for I, • aChnfb,~n ~f. h~ had no~oreco.rruption than appear.s · . I • ' •• ,. ; .. ' '7 :: / ... . ,
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