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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03311	Truths purchase: or A commoditie, which no man may either neglect to buie, or dare to sell laid forth in two sermons vpon Prov.23.23. by Samuel Hieron minister of the word, at Modburie in Deuon. Very necessary for the times, in which so few seeke after the truth, and so many fall away from the profession and practise of the truth.	Hieron, Samuel, 1576?-1617.	1606 (1606)	STC 13429; ESTC S116033	42,058	86

but rather some inferior Truth which is substituted by God as a meanes to bring vs vnto himselfe And yet neither is it that Truth which God hath seated in Nature and naturall things because so it is that the Creature partaking of Mans corruption Rom. 8. ●0 is subiect to Vanity and by that meanes the natiue Truth thereof is so tempered with lying deceitfulnes that the Heart of Man being in it selfe a meere lie is not able to seuer each from other but is rather therby made more vaine and to turne the Truth of God shining therein into a Lie Rom. 1.25 So weake an instrument is the Booke of nature to beget Truth in our heartes There is then another Truth which hath beene framed by God himselfe which neither can deceiue nor be deceiued and that is The Holy and precious word of the Almightie which by the spirit of God is called Truth Ioh. 17.17 Col. 1.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. Pet. 2.2 Psal 31.5 2. Pet. 1.20 Ioh. 14 6. Ioh. 14.17 Sanctifie them with thy Truth thy word is Truth The word of Truth which is the Gospell And the Milke of the word without deceit And this indeede cannot but be the Truth First because of the Author of it which is the God of Truth Secondly because of the Penmen of it Holy men which wrote of no priuate motion Thirdly because of the confirmer of it Christ the Truth Fourthly because of the Interpreter of it The Spirit of Truth And if it were fitting to the Text it were easie to shew the Truth of the Scriptures aboue all other Truthes that it is both the most auncient Truth and the most true Antiquitie Now there is yet another deriued Truth which is drawne out of the Word and is as it were the Briefe and Summary thereof Rom. 6.17 Rom. 12.3 Tit. 14. Deu. 34.4 It is that which Paul in one place calleth the Forme of Doctrine in another place the proportion of Faith in another the Truth which is according to godlines And this may fitly be compared vnto the mount Nebo vpon which the Lord placed Moses that from thence he might see all the borders and limits of the promised Canaan so from this and by the helpe hereof a man be able to comprehend with all the Saintes what is the bredth and depth and length and height of Religion So then here is the Issue of my speach that by Truth in this place is meant the Truth of Religion grounded vpon the Rule of Truth which is the scripture VVhat it is to Buy the Truth Now for Buying we must vnderstand that it is not any making merchandize of the Truth like to that beggerly sale of the Romish Trumperie as though a man could by mony purchase the graces of Gods Spirit which if it were so Christ should be prooued a Liar Luc. 18.24 who saith that with difficultie they that haue Riches shall enter into the kingdome of God whereas if saluation were a mony matter the Rich were like to speed best But because Buying is vsually of things of greatest cost and greatest necessitie therefore to signifie the paines to be taken in this case the spirit of God vseth this word of Buying Againe because the end of Buying is possession and the end of Possession is vse as Riches is possessed to make rich Apparell to make gay and so in other things therefore also the spirit of God to shew the care we ought to haue both to haue the Truth in possession and to diuert it to our vse hath mentioned Buying So then this Buying of the Truth which is commended here vnto vs vrgeth two duties 1. To labour to haue the Truth of Religion setled in ou● Iudgemēts that so we may be fulfilled with the knowledge of Gods will in all wisdome and spirituall vnderstanding 2. To conuey it thence into our affections that so there may be begotten there that which Dauid calleth Truth in the inward parts This then is the meaning Psal 51.6 Buy the Truth saith Salomon that is vse all diligence The sense of the first part spare no cost refuse no labour spend your best indeauours to come to the knowledge of the Truth and thereby your selues to be transformed into the Truth that you may so become true Israelites truly religious The diuision of it So that now this first member of my Text hath brought forth two Instructions the one is that we must indeuour for the setled knowledge of the Truth the other that we must make conscience of a holy Practise and of obedience to the Truth of these two in order And first of Buying the knowedge of the Truth Seing it hath pleased the wisdome of God in this place to borrow a word from the ordinarie courses among men and to cal the seeking after the Truth a Buying of the Truth therfore it shall not be amisse to follow the Metaphore and by examining the vsuall circumstāces of Buying to giue light to the duty recommended here vnto vs. The particular Branches of this whole Sermon As therefore in all other Bargains so in this Purchase of the Truth these things necessarily must concurre 1. A desire of the Commodity 2. A repairing to the Place where it is set to sale 3. A skill to discerne and knowe the goodnes of it 4. A giuing a price proportionable to the worth and value thereof 5. A storing it vp for necessarie vses of all these briefly The first Branch First there must be a desire of the Commoditie that is plaine in Reason For whensoeuer a man laieth out his money vpon any thing it proceedeth from a desire to be the owner of it and to haue it in possession and so the first thing in this Buying must be that which the Apostle Peter calleth Desiring the sincere milke 1. Pet. 2.2 Isay 55.1 c. which Isaiah termeth Thirsting Psa 119.111 174. which Dauid in one place calleth the clayming of the Lord his testimonies as an Heritage in another the longing after Gods saluation Now the desire of a commoditie springeth ordinarily from these two things 1. a mans own necessitie 2. the excellencie of the thing it selfe His owne necessitie maketh him willing to buy the excellencie of the thing maketh him willing to buy This rather then any other So that to the end we may come to this first degree of desire to Buy the Truth we must labour to feele these two things 1. what neede we haue of it 2. what an excellent thing it is to enioy it To shew our need many things might be alleged I wil be as briefe in it as I can because me thinketh I doe feele my matter like to a spring the further it goeth into the more streames to diuide it selfe Man by nature in respect of spirituall graces is the poorest Creature vnder heauen he commeth not into the world with a bodie so naked but he commeth also with a