The Excellency of Heavenly Treafom. drudging in the World, and have gotten a little vacancy and freedom from it doft 0 thou fpend that little time in the thoughts of God, and of the things 0 f Eternity ? Or cloth the World, and the things of the \VorId, interpofe and rake up thy Thoughts ? lf fo, h?w canft thou fay thy Tr~afure !s there, when thy Thoughts and thy Heart ts never there ? As Daltlah fa1d unto Samp[on, Horo canft thou fay that thou iovefl me, when thy heart is nor towards me l So how canft thou fay that rhy treafure is in Heavm, when thy heare and thy thoughts are not nxre? SERMON xx. M A T. vi. 2o, 21. 'But lay up for your Jehm Treajures in HealJen, tvhere .neither moth nor ruft dotb Corrupt, and where 1bi~1m do not hreak._ through nor fteal : For tvhere your Trea{ure is, there will your Heart he alfo. I Come to a fecond mark~ whereby you may know where your Treafure is, and that is this; that which bears the chief [way and command in 11 Mm's .AJfrfliOtu, · that is a Man's 'Tre,1[ure. • AffeCtions are the Wings of the Soul that carry it forth to its feveral Ob- T#atJtJhio.h jects, and thcfe move to nothing more fwiftly, ftrongly, and conftantly, then to beanj;e what is the SouPs Treafure; when your Souls now take thefe Wings and fly a- g,reate. 4 broad, follow them, and fee what it is upon which they light. As the Eagle ~;~.;~{ will hover over the Carka[s, fo the .AffiUiom witl be frill hovering over the SouL's jdlions• . TreA{ure: Sec now whether it is your Defire and Love, your Joy and Delight, do rha1 i1 his. carry you forth: Is it only to the Things of this World? Certainly if thefe Wings Treafure. be clotted only with Mire and Dirt, if they onl y flutter up and down the Surface of the Earth and mount up no higher, your Treafure is not an Heavenly Treafure; the .Affections of the Children of God frill afcend upwards, and bear up their Hearts. with them till they lodge in that Divine Bofom where firft they were inkindled: I need not tell tbofe happy Ones what it is to have their Hearts fo extended in love to God, and the Things of God, as to caufe a kind of lofs, pain, and torture; what it is to have that Joy fpringing up in the Soul that is unutterable! Yea, fuch unfupportable Joys as have melted them into E.wafies; how infinitely would they now difdain that any Soul fuould be fo grolly foolifh as to preferr the World before, or equalize it with God; Ten thoufand Worlds is not fo much to them as one momentary Glimpfe of God in Communion w.ith him ; nay, they think their Happi.lefs fo great, that though they do believe, yet they cannot conceive how it: fhould be more and greater in Heaven it felf: 0 then the Soul claps it Wings, and fain would it take its flight and be gone; it breathes, and breaks, and pants after God: Set: what an Agony holy David was in, Pfalm 42. I, 2. As the Het~rt panteth after the ~Vatcr-brrioks, fo panteth my Soul after thee, 0 God; my Soul thirjfcth for God, fonhe living Cod; when foal! l.come and appear b~forc God! Indeed the whole Pfaim is the moft mournful and patheucal compofure m all the Scripture, of a Heart that beats and throbs after God, with vehement Love and De fire after the enjoying of t.im; and whence was this, but becaufe Go.d was the Portion and Treafure of his Sou\? He was the health of hU cou11tenance, and his God,. Verfc IJ, Wherefoever God, and the Things of God, are made the SouPs Tre4un, there will be proportionable AffeCtions drawn out to thefe Things. Never was it known that a Treafure wanted Affections. Objetl:. But 11las1 may fome fay, I frar then that I have no jiMre in this heavenly Treafure ; tleVtr w.u I [o ftrortgly Ajfeffed with the Di{covrries of God and Chrijf, and the B b b b b 'Thing,'
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