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CPII.IS'TtAN'S*T.REASVFE.
LSER11.
XXXFI4.
and
to
part
With
these possessions
?
Can
you,
by
com-
plying
with any temptation, provide
yourself
with
such riches as these
;
or
with
any
thing
that
shall an-
swer the
loss
of
them?
Sin
and the
world
can
promise
you
buta
little,
narrow share
ofgood
things: The
gospel
of
Christ
gives you a
most extensive treasure,
for
it
be-
stows all things upon
you.
The
world can
make nothing
secure,
but
the treasures of christianity are
everlasting;
they
reach beyond the
grave,
into
unknown worlds and
ages. All
the wealth, and pleasures,
and
enjoyments of
this
life
perish with the
using
;
but your inheritance
is
ever
upon the increase
:"
As
fast as time and providence
bring forth
days,
and
seasons,
and
new scenes,
so
fast
this treasure grows;
arid you
may receive
the
daily
pro-
fit
of
it.
What
can
sin
and
the world
give you
but
what
hath a secret curse
in
it
?
These your treasures
are
sanctified
blessings,
and the foretastes
of
them
are
de-
signed
to
assist you onward
in
the
ways
of
holiness
and
peace,
till you
arrive
at
the
brightest and
sweetest
part
of
them, the
full
enjoyment of (god
and happiness
in
the
upper
world.
Go
on
then,
christians,
with
zeal
and courage
in
the
profession
of
-your
faith
:
on with
constancy
in
the
practice of duty
:
Feed
daily
upon
that portion of your
inheritance,
which
your
heavenly
Father
appoints
to
sustain
you
in
your
travels
homeward
;
and expect
the
rest
in
your Father's
house. When the
world would
tempt
you
to
forego
your sacred interest
in
the
gospel,
by
the alluring
offer
of
any
temporal
enjoyments,
tell
the
world,
that
"
life
and death, things
present and
things
to come
are yours already
:''
Let
the
world know
that
Christ
has
engaged"
and secured your
heart
for ever
to
thinnelf, by
outbidding
all
that
the world
can
offer
:
foi'
he
has
written
dawn
and sealed
your title
to
a
larger
and
richer inheritance, and annexed
it
to
his own
:-
"
Ye-
are
joint
heirs
with
Christ. And
he
has
appointed
it
to
stand
recorded
in his
holy book
to
the
view
of
men and
angels,
that
all
things
are
yours."
THE
RECOLLECTION..
Adis
it
possible
that
so
worthless
a
creature
as
f
am,
should
be
really
entitled
to all
these blessings
:
Can
it
he
true,
that
so
rich
an
interest
in
the good
things
of
time
and eternity
belongs to
me
?
To
i
ie,-'who
am less