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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17320	The Christians heauenly treasure. By William Burton of Reading in Barkeshire	Burton, William, d. 1616.	1608 (1608)	STC 4168; ESTC S115749	64,773	170

reason is because hee hath now goods inough for many yeers but as he was thus dreaming of many yeeres goods and rest a voice comes and awakes him and tels him plainly that he doth vtterly mistake the matter Thou foole saith hee this night shall they fetch away thy Soule and then whose goods shall those be that thou hast gathered So is it saith Christ with him that gathereth riches to himselfe and is not rich in God This vanitie is well set out by the holy Ghost when Salomon saith there is an euill sicknesse namely ●iches reserued to the hurt of their owners and these riches perish by euill trauaile And this is also an euill sicknesse saith the man of experience that in all points as hee came so shall hee goe and what profit hath hee that he hath trauailed for the winde I haue also seene a man saith he to whom God hath giuen riches and treasures and honour and he wanteth nothing for his soule of all that he desireth but God giueth not power to eate thereof this is vanitie and vexation of spi●it As this vanitie is a vexation to the spirit of man so is it no lesse grieuous to the spirit of God for that contrary to the minde of our heauenly father we bestow our loue so fondly vpon that which cannot help vs. The commandement saith wee must honour our parents now amongst other things tending to the honour of our earthly parents this is not the least for a child to require the consent of his parents in bestowing of himselfe in marriage and to marrie against their mindes especially when there is reason to the contrary cannot bee but a great dishonour offred to our parents But what earthly parents haue so great interest in their children as God hath in vs what childe oweth such dutie to his earthly parents as wee owe to God If I be your father saith the Lord where is my honour as if hee had said if you depend vpon me for your prouision and looke for my blessing how is it that you set your harts vpon my creatures not vpon mee knowing that my minde is so much against such foolish bestowing of your selues as though I could not or would not fill your harts with as much ioy and gladnesse as my creatures can doe and more too Therefore saith Paul to Timothy Charge them that are rich in this world that they bee not high minded and that they trust not in vncertaine riches but in the liuing God How dangerous worldliness is to the Soule THere is no truer Nobilitie then to be a citizen of the heauenly Ierusalem sonne and heire to the most high all which is defaced and abolished if the hart lie buried in earthly things There is no sounder ioy then the ioy of the holy ghost which is a fruit of Faith is grounded on the loue of God but this cannot bee relished or tasted by him whose hart doth cleaue to this miserable bondage of worldly cares There are no such goods as the sanctifying graces of the holy ghost which onely make a man truely happy as to cleaue vnto God by faith to loue the Lord from the hart to worship him in spirit and truth and to bee wholly vnited vnto him But far is hee from these things whose hart is set vpon earthly goods At the Sermon his minde runneth after his couetousnesse and with his mouth hee maketh iests both of the doctrine and Doctor because hee liketh neither the one nor the other like the Pharises which mocked Christ when hee spake against couetousnesse because themselues were couetous When the Sermon is done they forget al because their harts wer choked with the thorny cares of the world if they fall to reporting of the Sermon it is with additions and detractions mistakings and falsify cations most strange to heare as if the Preacher had ben mad or drunke or in some dreame when he spake Thus the word of life and grace which is a sweet sauour of life vnto life eternall to the regenerate and spirituall minde yeeldeth a most fearefull sauour of death vnto death euerlasting to the carnall worldly minded man Seeing therefore to bestow the hart affection vpon earthly things is proued to be a match so base and vnbeseeming the dignitie of a Christian so wretched and miserable so vaine and deceiptfull so dishonourable to God and preiudiciall to our owne saluation let vs labour by earnest prayer and holy meditation to haue our mindes purged from this euill sicknesse of worldly loue and neuer giue the Lord any rest vntill by zealous prayer wee haue obtained of his diuine Maiestie the wings of a liuely Faith whereby our heauie harts and dull spirits may bee mounted vp aloft to seeke for our Treasure in heauen and then indeed shall wee bee heauenly minded for where the Treasure is there will the hart bee also How to iudge by the heart whether ● mans Treasure be in heauen or no. THere be certaine signes in the hart whereby a man may iudge of his estate to come as there be in the skie to know what weather shall happen when the skie is red in the Euening men say faire weather when it is red lowring in the morning it is a signe of foule weather when a cloud riseth out of the West they say a shower is comming when the South-winde bloweth a signe of heat By obseruing how Ionathan shot his arrows Dauid knew how Saul stood affected towards him by the holding out of the golden Scepter Hester knew shee was in the Kings fauour by the budding of the Trees wee know that Summer is come by the sound of the Vessell the emptinesse or fulnes thereof is perceiued by the beating of the pulses the distemperature of the body is discerned And by the affections of the heart which are the pulses of the soule the hearts Treasure is discouered and where it lyeth for God that hath giuen men signes to know the state of the body the alteration of weather and the mindes of other men hath also giuen certaine notes and signes to discerne the state of the Soule by Yea Christ doth condemne them for Hypocrites which will not iudge of themselues as well as of other things Hipocrites saith hee Yee can discerne the face of the Earth and of the Skie but why discerne yee not this time yea and why iudge yee not of your selues what is right But how may that be will some say or how may a man know by the affections of the heart where the hearts treasure is Then mark the way of wisdome and learne to bee wise when the Lord Iesus heard one answeare discreetely he said vnto him Thou art not farre from the kingdome of God to shew that discreet answeres in matters of religion are signes of grace When Zacheus did with heart obey Christ and with reuerence receiue Christ and in charitie releiue Christ in

may be a defect in the vnderstanding which may bee darkish cloudy or in the vtterance which may be slow or in the memory which may be obliuious or in the Faith which may be weak or in the repentance which may be dull or in the will which may be waiward or in the Loue which may be cold yet in all these remaine a double com●ort first these graces are in truth in thee for thou vnderstandest aright and remembrest the best things and beleeuest the word and repentest in truth with hatred of sinne and louest God and his word euen for themselues and secondly so much as thou vnderstandest knowest remembrest beleeuest louest thou affectest embracest in hart vnfainedly and desirest to grow in them and to practise them all which are blessed signes of the grace of God And lastly if thou didst once feele the forgiuenes of thy sinnes and God fauourable vnto thee in his sonne Christ and now wantest that feeling know that for some iust cause it is taken from thee either to humble thee or to make thee more thankfull when thou feelest so great grace bestowed vpon thee or to make it come againe vnto thee after thy humiliation tryall of thy patience with greater ioy sweetnes for ioy restored is sweeter then ioy continued That God that hath vouchsafed of his great goodnesse to shew vs in some measure the difference betweene the treasures of the earth and the riches of his kingdome and by giuing vs the one doth allure vs to loue and accept of the other giue vs grace so to seeke and vse the one that in the end of our race wee may obtaine the other and that for his infinite mercies sake in Iesus Christ our Lord and all sufficient Sauiour to whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be giuen all honour and glory with power and dominion for euer and euer Amen FINIS Errata Fol. 1. b. line 13. read thornes fol. 23. b. l. 8. read ballist l. 24. r. Prayer fol. 25. l. 24. r religions dowry fol. 32. b. l. 5. r. the almightie l. 20. r. bellowing fol 65. b. l. 12. r. such a man 1. Tim. 6. 9 The scop summ● of this Text. The parts of the Text. Ioh. 6. 27. Luk. 12. 33 Mat. 10. 9 Mat. 6. 25. Treasure 1. King 5 Pro. 2. 4. Mat. 13. Mat 13. ● Mat. 12. ● ●sa 33. 6 ●uk 6. 45. ●uk 12. 33 Cor. 4. 7 Cor. 2. 9 Pro. 2. 4. 1 King 10 22 Gen. 37. 28 Chap. 39. 1 Gen. 41. 35 Ioh. 6. 12. 1 Cor. 12. 14 Tim. 5. 8. Prouerbs Thessalo Luk. 12. 33 ● Thess. 3. 10 Ioh. 6. 27. Psal. 90. 10 Mat. 2 28. Hes. 3. 5. 6 Sam. 1. Cor. 15 Luk 12. 19 Mat. 22. 5. Luk. 14. 18 Gen 25. 32 Heb. 12. 16 Christs Reason The miserie of a worldling Mat. 16. Luke 12. Dan. 4. Weedes ●hil 3. 18. Act. 14. 15. 18. Virg. Aen. lib. 1. Eccles. 1. Vse 1. Vse 2. Vse 3. The Affirmatiue part Heauenly Treasures are to bee preferred in three respects viz. 1. Excellencie 2. Securit● 3. Perpetuitie Of the excellency of the Christians Treasure Obiect Answere Col. 2. 3. Eph. 1. 3. Iohn 1. 16. Act. 17. 28. Cant. 5. 8. Cant. 5. 8. Verse 9. Verse 10. 11 12 13 14 15 16 Apo. 21. 2 Verse 11. 12 14 16 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 1. Cor. 2. Apo. 3. 18. Pro. 8. 10. Pro. 16. 16 Pro. 3. 13. 14 15 16 17 18 Phi. 3. 20. Apo. 4. Christs ship described Eph. 6. Act. 3. 6. The cornmodities of the Gospell Earthly Treasure doth follow the heauenly Mat. 6. 33. 1 King 3 12. 13 Ruth 4. 4. 5 1 Tim. 4. 8 Apoc. 22. 2 Mal. 3. 10. Mat. 5. 2 Cor. 4. Mat. 17. Psal. 32. 10. Mat. 25. 20 1 Tim. 1. 19. Of their Perpetuity Milo Mal. 4. 2. Ioh. 2. Of their Security 3 Bees Fran. Petrach de remedijs vtriusque fert Nothing more frail or vnquiet than the life of Man Memory Vnderstanding and prouidence peruerted vnto our own toile c. Cares Grieued Vexed Afraid Entrance blindnes Progresse labour End sorrow Course error Day Morning War with Fortune Better ouercome then bee had in continual scorne The cause our ●owne lightnesse Vniuersal discord betweene man the Creatures Of the Elements No Creature without war Of Loue and Mariage Masters Seruants Parents Children Friends Bees Doues Moth. Rot. Wormes Sparrow Mildew Moule The toiles of the richer sort Of Man against Man Lawyer● for thy Wealth Phisitions for health Strife for Religion To doe n● the most doe Horace Diruit ●dificat mutat quadrata rotundis Contention without an aduersary Scriueners Souldiers Speakers writers Infants Children Yong men Women Old men● Of the internall strife in a mans self Vse Obiect Answ. Obiect Answere 2. Cor 12. Rom. 7. Luk. 22. 32 Ioh. 16. 20 1. Tim. 2 13 Verse 19. 2. Tim 1. 12 Rom. 8. 26 Obiect Answere Heb. 13. How mos●men goe to Gods house Foure circūstances 1 Place 2 Time 3 Manner how 4 Why. 1. Cor. 9. 24 2. Cor. 4. Ioh. 5. 39. Ioh. 5. 39. Psa. 19. 10 Ps. 119. 92 Pro. 3. 13. 14 15 16 17 The crosse of Christ an offence to some How to auoid the former offence Prou. 2 1● 2 3 4 5 Reu. 3. 18. Of the time when to lay vp c. E●cles 9 Eccle. 12. ● Esa. 55. 6. Rom. ● 1. Iohn 5● Euill company how dangerous Eecle 9. 18 How to lay vp heauenly treasure Luk. 12. 33 Mar 19. 21 Mat 25. 34 Esa 58. 7. Necessary encouragements and why Ouerplus for the poore Cal. Har. Ma● 10. 42 The 2 way to lay vp c. Ioh. 15. Mat. 10. 39 Rom. 8. 17 35 36 37 2 Cor. 4. 16 17 18 The third way to lay vp c. Phil. 3. 10. Ephe. 1. 4. Col. 2. 3. Iohn 1. Iob. 13. 15 Esa. 11. 6. Dan. 1. 9. Psal 91. 13 Hos. 2. 18. The secōd benefite The third benefice The 4 benefite Of Christs Vertue Of Christs example Consormitie in morall duties Faith Loue. Meeknes Humility Acts. 9. A true Christian a good Alcumist Verse 21. The secōd part containing the reason of the Commandement Summū Bonum Col. 3. 1. 2. Verse 3. Foure things to be considered in this match ● Basenesse 1. Cor. 13. 11 Nehe. 6. 11. Prouerbs 1. Tim. 6. ● ● Tim. 6. 10. Luk. 12. Eccle. 5. 12 15 Cap. 6. 1. A dishonour to God ●al 1. 6. ● Tim. 6. 17 Eze. 33. 31 Luk. 16. 14 Mat. 16. 3 Luk 12. 5● Luke 12. 56. 57. Mar 12. 34 Luk. 19. Psa. 41. 11 Ioh. 13. 34 ●omfortable 〈◊〉 Ez●ch 9 4 Ioh. 1. 50. 1. Cor. 2. 9 Mat 1● Ier. 17. 9. Psal. 4. Mat. 12. 35 Psal. 45. 1 ●sal 39. 2. lat 12. 35 Can. 1. 1. Ps. 119. 13 Psal. 42. 1. Luk. 12. 13 oh 8. 6. Obiect Answere 1. King 3 Mat. 14 Obiect Mat. 13. 20 Gal. 5. 22. Answere Act. 16. 34 Obiect Cōscience afflicted Cant. 5. 1. Answere Psal. 27. 8. Matth. 5. Esa. 55. 2 3 4 Psal. 43. ●imile