Heywood - Houston-Packer Collection BV4510.A2 H49 1667

'I .. Hettrt-1reafote ,· ·. ' '• Treafure out . of h!s Heart. ' . 7 • In a Trea(ure t,he~e~s readinefs f?r pre... Cent fupply, 'Tts buc gtvtng a turn wuh the key, and taking ·out provlfion ,. and making ufe thereof , which is as foon .made ready as .Abr~thanls Feaft for the Angels, or Jac~/,1 _ Venifon for his Father Ifattc: He thar bath arreafure of food, hath it not to feek when ? lie fhould ufe it ; as the man in the Parable:; . that ran to .call up his Neighbour;-: to l{orrow Luke tii three Loaves becaufe hebad nothing to fee be- s, 6~ - fore his Friend that c~me unexpeCtedly>; But . the ·wel-furnifu'd Chrifiian can make God ··. \ . welcome in all his vilies, in Mercy or Difplea- .· I • ; • {ure, and own him as a ·Friend, whether be ,_. '~~~ · comeby day or by night ; a wel·ftored foul bath fomething in readine{s for his 1 bonou~ rableGuefi. A notable refemblance hereof Ma -~ -~ .u·~ h~vein the Par~ble of the wife and foolifh ,, ;~!i~ ' Vtrgtns; Th~ Oyltn 'tbe Lamp ts the treafure - -·· j . ofGrace in the hea~t ; and though th~ Virgin . ,Chriftianmay flumber as to the Exercife of · .Grace, yet he is ready upon a fudden Alarm for the Bridegooms entertainment , but tht:· foolilh ~Virgi.t1 is the treafurelefs Soul ; .the .. gracele(s Sinner, that bath no Oyl at all, but while ic goes to buy) is {hut outof the pre• fence Chamber. But of this more hereafter ...... onelyobferve, in General, that he that hath a treafure wiil bequickly furnifh•d with all ac- ·· · commodations, onall o'cafions : Thus muth for che firft head. · · · · · / • ( I • '

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