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happiness
May
know no end.
Thus
.things
present, and
things to
corne
are
all
yours; and there
is
nothing
in
tine
or eternity,
which
can
corne
within the
reach
or
notice,
but
in some
of
these senses shall
subserve
your
interest, and
turn
to
your advantage.
This
is
the genuine
sense,
and
this the
true limitation
of
these
words,
"all
things
are
yours.
".
The
second thing proposed
in
this
discourse, was to
prove,
that
notwithstanding the
limited sense
of
these
words,
yet
the
true
christian has a
richer treasure
in
them than
all
the
worldly wealth
of
the sinner.
And
without
multiplying particulars, the
proof of it
will
suf-
ficiently
appear
in
these
four
things.
I.
The treasure
of
the
meanest saint
is
vastly more
large and
extensive,
than that
of
the
richest
sinner.
Let
the
wicked man
point
to
his
heaps
of
money,
and
run
over
the
names
of
his
farms
and
manors,
and
call-him-
self
the
lord
and
master
of
them
all;
it
is
but
a narrow
and
poor
survey,
that
a
few
pieces
of
shining
earth can
give
us;
or
the
fields
that
lie
within the
prospect
of
a
mile
or
two,
when
compared
with this
vast and univer-
sal
treasure,
"
all things are yours."
It
is
true,
Christi-
ans,
that
you have
not
the
civil
property
and power
over
the
earth or
the
heavens;
but
you receive
a
divine
ad-
vantage
from
all things,
and
that
is
more than the sinner
can
say
concerning any one thing
that
he possesses in
the
way
of
civil
property.
II.
This
treasure
of
the saints
is
more secure, aml
more durable, than any thing
that
a sinner
enjoys
;
there-
fore the
apostle
calls
the wealth
of
this world, -"
uncer-
tain
riches,
that
cannot
be
trusted in,"
1
Tim.
vi. 17.
Riches make
to themselves
wings,
and
fly
away
as
an
eagle toward heaven," Rrov.
xxiii. 5.
and
leave the
owner poor and destitute
:.
Many
a
wealthy man
who
flourished yesterday,
in
abundance
of
ease
and
plenty,
may
be
stripped
of
al!
to-
morrow,
and want the common
supports
of
nature.
What
possessions soever
are built
upon
the
foundations
of
civil
property,
may
be
taken
away from the
saint or the
sinner,
by
robbing and plun-
der,
by
cheating and
knavery,
by
inundations
of
water,
or
the rage
of
fire,
or
by
the invasion
of
a foreign
enemy;
but
the beneficial
interest that a
christian has
in
all
things
is
preserved
to him
by
the covenant
of
grace.
He