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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76090	[Chrysammoi] Golden sands, or, A few short hints about the riches of grace. Part I begun to be opened from the words of the Apostle, in Eph. 2,7 ... : dedicated to the royal bud of our English hopes, Princesse Elizabeth / by John Bachiler ...	Batchiler, John, ca. 1615-1674.; Elizabeth, Princess of England, 1635-1650.	1647 (1647)	Wing B1073A; ESTC R42998	28,635	167

enough to hold them all that they may be all under one roofe So far wide doth this glorious edifice enlarge it selfe having multitudes of roomes to spare in it for new commers that it grow's into a City and that a mighty one a city as big as a Kingdome Heb. 11.16 He hath prepared for them a City Mat. 25.34 Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdome prepared for you Prepared it intimat's a kind of extraordinary thoughtfulnesse for the building of it that the materials the fashion of it and all that belongs to it might be sumptuous As David speaks 1 Chro. 29.2 3. Moreover saith he because I have set my affection to the house of my God I have prepared with all my might gold silver onyx stones and stones to be set glistering stones and of divers colours and all manner of precious stones c. so Grace did when she built Heaven for the Saints she knew who were to dwell there one day and therefore she spar's neither cost nor art she provid's her gold and precious stones to build with pearles so fair and goodly that the mighty gates of the City each of them were but of one entire pearle and the very streets thereof paved with no worse then pure gold as bright as transparent glasse Rev. 21.21 But this is not all for that the hous shold stuffe and furniture might be suitable to the building the very spoones and dishes yea the candlesticks and snuffers and that but in the type onely are all of pure gold Exod. 25.38 And if these so rich what then may we judge of the more Noble utensils of the vessels of honour and the hangings wherewith the rooms are furnished Fourthly free-grace which thus cloth's feed's and houseth the Saints in glory and state is not sparing to them any other way she put 's store of money into their purses also Parents that love their children and are at great expences with them otherwise are not wont to pinch them in this respect but make allowance to them with such a free and liberal hand that abhorring basenesse they may carry it out with a generous and worthy spirit The same rule free-grace observeth also never let 's the Saints want money no not the poorest of them she stor's them with good gold and silver see else Job 22.23 24 25. If thou returne to the Almighty then shalt thou lay up gold as dust and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brookes yea the Almighty shall be thy most choise gold 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lectissinū aurum tuum so Junius read's it and thou shalt have plenty of silver So that the Saints know no want no not the meanest or youngest of them they all have enough as well in their Nonage as in their full age They are rich in faith Jam. 2.5 rich in good works 1 Tim. 6.18 rich in precious promises 1 Pet. 1.4 rich in the saving knowledge of the word of life which dwel's in them richly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Col. 3.16 Their money is currant in heaven though few will receive it for good coyne in this world Fiftly agreeable to these things are all the rest The very attendants upon the Saints how high and noble are they a traine so glorious that even greatest Emperours may veile unto for Angels wait on them Heb. 1.12 Are they not all ministring spirits sent forth to minister unto them who shall be heires of salvation Doth it please the Saints at any time to ride out and take a prospect abroad in the company of that Royall lover which Grace hath espoused them unto Behold his owne charret is ready for them with all the equipage thereof Cant. 3.9 10. King Solomon made himselfe a charret of the wood of Lebanon He made the pillars thereof of silver the bottome thereof of gold the covering thereof of purple the midst thereof being paved with love for the daughters of Jerusalem To all this what riches of Grace goe besides those incident experces that occasionally arise for as 't is in a great family if there be many sicke in it or lye hurt or wounded weake and diseased especially if they be the prime peeces the best beloveds the deare children and those whose lives are most desireable on all sides what cost is spared Nay what cost is not most industriously improved and that all the wayes that can be imagined for the recovery of them no Chirurgery Physicke choise provisions most helpfull attendants neglected night or day how many a rich man hath beggar'd himselfe in costly remedies on his owne crazy body or upon the body of his deare wife or child Bezar stones dissolv'd gold magisteriall pearle with a thousand such like precious ingredients have beene as common things in such cases as these are And just so it is among the Saints how many of them often lye thus sick and wounded weake and feeble under the hand of Grace alwayes ailing something either heads ake or hearts ake this member is wounded and that is out of joynt the eyes are sore the stomack 's ill the spirits faint of one or other of them continually nothing but complaining among them and crying out for playsters for cordials for some good thing this or that which they may be able to digest all these free-grace hath the care and the charge of whose very looking to with the remedies that are apply'd amount's to full as much if not to much more then all the disbursments upon the others that are more healthfull When free grace com's among her wounded patients in her Christ's hospitall she com's with no common salves no balmes are applyed by her hand but the very balmes of Heaven no others can serve the turne to worke the cares that she mean's to make No cordials of her administring but what have beene prepared by her owne hand and skill in her owne Apothecaries shop and applyed at the sole direction of the great Physition of soules JESVS CHRITT Now lay all together the losses the forgivings the ransomes the expences of Grace in behalfe of the Saints consider but how much it is all these wayes out of purse and then speak what you thinke of the riches of it But yet all this is nothing to what may be farther said in consideration of the most inestimable worth of those rich precious things which free grace may be said to bestow upon the Saints more properly by way of gift A view whereof as in one treasury where all ly's wee shall take by considering the love of God and that kind heart of his which his owne strong and most deare affection hath so abundantly filled with sweetest inclinations towards and most glorious intentions concerning the Saints Which most precious and glorious love that it may the more cleerly shine out unto us it will be necessary to open the meaning of those words Eph. 2.7 In his kindnesse towards us through Christ Jesus Where occasion will be given to make this double enquiry First what the greatnesse of Gods love is to the Saints as they stand in a kind of single relation to himself from those words in his kindnesse towards us Secondly what the greatnesse of his love is to the same Saints as they stand in a double relation viz. both to himselfe and to his Sonne and how that love wrought from all eternity in behalfe of the Saints while 1. it gave the Saints to Christ and 2. gave Christ to them from those words through Jesus Christ A speculation most ineffably delightful which it was no marvaile that the Angels should so much desire to peep into 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Propenso collo vel in clinato capite introspicere stooping down as the Apostle speak's in allusion to the Cherubims over the Mercy-seat that they might pry into the depths of this glorious mysterie viz. the mysterie of this love Of which if God permit I shall speak in the next part by it selfe FINIS ERRATA PAg. 33. line 10. for head read heale Pag. 48. margent read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉