Chap.6. according to St M A r r x E vv. 227 bolted out force fufpitïaus words, a e fceks not to reconcile the twobrethren,by making the younger yeeld again, what he had dot from the Elder ; but prefers the blefhng before Jacobs life, and fends him away. This was to lay up treafure in heaven, for vcvrrexregairvr her fonne, who took herein after the mother too. For if Efto will but faffèr him to fettle in theLand ofpromife, a typeof hea- ven; he will fore for no colt to make his peace. Silver and gold hebath none, but cattel gc,od flora : 5 5o. head of them fends he for a prefent, to make roomfor him, as Solomon path it. Let heaven be a mans ob elE, andearth will loon behis abjsE . Da- vidcounts one good call ofGods countenance,farre better thenalt the corn and oil in the countrey. Solomon craves wifdom and not wealth. Pass/countsall but droffe, dung, and dogs-meat, fo cY.ú,3xr.x.' he may winChrift, and get home tohim. Here we have but a Phil.3.8. glimpfe of thofe gleams ofglory, we fee but as in aglafJe obfcurely; r Cor s & our life is hid with Chri(l in God, as the pearl lies hid, till the ItCo..q.g, fhell be broken. Compare the &ate of Prince Charles in his QZeen- motherswomb, with his condition at full age, in all the glory c fhis fathers Court ; there is not fo broad a di3erence as betwixt cur prefent enjoyments ( albeit our ¡oyes here arc un- i Pet i. fpeakableglorious ) with thofe we (hall have hereafter. SurAriz, igittircurfmnotrumdirigamut. Let thereforeour affaions and aaìons, our counf-ls and courfes,be bent and bound for heaven; our earthly bufinefl'csdifpatchwith heavenly mindes, and in fer- vingmen, let tofervethe Lord Chrift. The Angels are fent about Gods meflagc tothis earth, yet never out of their heaven, never without the vificpn oftheir maker. Thefe earthly things diflra i not, if we make them not our treafure, ifwe (hoot not our hearts over-farce into them. The endofaChriflians life is (not as A- naxa oral dreamed ofthe lifeofman, tobehol i the heavens, but ) to live inheaven. This hebegins to do hereby the life of faith, by WallingWith Clod, as Enoch and Elias, thofe Candidate, of im4 Gen.6.9; mortality (fo the Ancientscalled them) by Walking before cod, Kin,.9.4 as eAbraham and 'David by walking after Clod, as the Ifr4elitcs -r),:üri3-4, were bidden to do. With God, a man walks by an hurnk,le friendfhipand familiarity; before him, by uprightneffe and inte- grity : after him byobedience andconformity, by doing his will oneartii, AS it/4 in heaven. And this is, to lay up treatre in heaven; this is, as the Apofileexprcffah, and interpreteth it, to lay up in floeforour [elvesogoodfoundation againfi the time to come, that we C. x may r
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