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A01452 a pearle of price or, The best purchase For which the spirituall marchant Ieweller selleth all his temporalls. By Samuel Gardiner, Batchellor of Diuinitie. Gardiner, Samuel, b. 1563 or 4. 1600 (1600) STC 11578; ESTC S118892 98,748 224

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grace of God who is able to build further to giue thee an inheritāce among those that are sanctified the Lord sanctify these my labors direct them to his glory and the common saluation Farewell A Table setting out the seuerall Contents of the Chapters of this Booke CHap. 1. Of the purport and necessary vse of this parable Folio 1. Chap 2. That the worde of God is all kind of Treasure Folio 16 Chap. 3. That the word of God is a Pearle of great price Folio 33 Chap. 4. That the word of God is a Treasure that is hidden and wherefore it is so called Folio 55 Chap. 5. Of this Merchant man his taske imposed vppon him for the attayning vnto this Treasure and Pearle of great price Folio 73 Chap. 6. Of the gladnesse of this Euangelicall Merchant vpon the finding of this Treasure and Pearle of great price vnder which the ioy which the saints of God do feel by the power of his worde typically is shadowed Folio 89 Chap. 7. By the example of this Merchaunt who did hide his Treasure the necessitie not onely of the hearing of the worde but also of the faithfull hiding it in our hearts is manifestly euicted Folio 110 Chap. 8. That this heauenly Treasure is to be preferred and esteemed of vs aboue all earthly riches Folio 125 Chap 9. That God and the world cannot agree together Folio 141 Chap. 10 Of the necessitie of our mortification and the abiuration of all our worldly lustes vnder the person and example of this Ieweller who made a simple sale of all that he had for the purchase of this Treasure and Pearle of great price euidently euicted Folio 157 Chap. 11. That all our endeuours are to redound to the glory of God and to tend onely to a spirituall end as is liuely shadowed in the example of this Marchant whose bargaine of sale of all his temporalls was only for the purchase of this heauenly Treasure Folio 174 Chap. 12. An Exhortation to the loue of the worde and the spirituall life the purport of the premisses Folio 188 ¶ Faultes escaped in the printing I pray thee correct thus Pag. 7 line 26. reade Gelbea Pag. 15. l. 19. scarcirie for security Pag. 28. l. 4. Sisara for Si●opa Pag. 36. li. 9. distant for descant Pag. 51. l. 13. eareth for eateth twise Pag. 55. li. 2. reade omnipotent Pag. 56. l. 11. reade it was not the Pag. 59. lin 4 for Coelo reade Celo Pag. 71. li. 9 for nullique read nuila Pag. 74. l. 14. wages for wayes Pag. 82. lin 13. whole for holy Pag. 84. l. 23. reade Was not this Pag. 87. l. 19. reade and rudiment Pag. 87. last line reade kabish Pag. 105. lin 12. reade in that Pag. 115. lin 2. dele to the Pag. 123. lin 23. moate for moath Pag. 126. li 8. read This gospel-like Goldsmith Pag. 130. lin reade coruscant Pag. 133 l. 5. reade loath the word Pag. 135 lin 14. reade Bochri Pag. 136. line 20. reade delights of the worlde are in steede of nurses Pag. 153. line 6. for so reade in Pag. 154. line 4. reade fauour of Pag. 157. line 2. reade abiuration Pag. 160. l 27. Christ for christians Pag. 176. line 7 reade Athenian The best Purchase for which the Spiritual Marchant-aduenturer selleth all that he hath Mat. 13 CHAP. I. Of the purport and necessary vse of this Parable THese two Parables as Pharao his twoo dreames of the seauen fatte kine seauen eares of corne Genesis 41 are in effect but one Both of them chalke out the way that we must walke that we seeke not happinesse out of the way as E●●● hunting venison Genesis 27 was preuented of his blessing It is wonderfull how the world is greedie of the world striuing for it as beggars for a doale preying vpon it Iob 8 as the Eagles on the altares and as the busie Birdes vpon Abraham his sacrifice Genesis 11 These raue with Rachel Giue me children ●r else I die Giue me worldely riches Genesis 10. pleasures and desires or else I die doating vpon this Dittie with the ruder rowt Happy are the people who are in such a case Psalme 144 whose sheepe bring forth thousands ten thousands in their streets c. which the Singer of Israel mendeth with his harpe trebbling and quauering melodiously in this manner Yea happy are the people who haue the Lord Iehouah for their God Now Numb 12 because it is our custome to set worser things first and to esteeme more of onions the flesh-pots of Aegypt than of heauenly manna with the older Israelites to preferre trash before treasure swine before our Sauiour with the greedy Gergesines Mathew 19 to turmoyle our selues with Martha about manie things Luke 8 Luke 10 Luke 3 and neglect the chiefest thing which was Maries choice here the Holy-ghost answering like Iohn Baptist too what shal we doe setteth vs as it were in the kings hie way that leadeth vnto heauen that guides vs to a treasure of incomparable value to a Pearle and Purchase of the greatest price and profite whatsoeuer Hitherto our Sauiour hath spent much speech about the preaching of the Gospel which else-where hee termeth Matthew 4 The Gospel of the kingdome and in this place The Kingdome of heauen because it is the key that openeth heauen doore and the right path that brings vs to heauen sampling it to triuiall and trifling things that are of common vse in certain former speciall Parables as to Corne Leauen Mustard seed and a Field in the which with good wheat tares and darnell and other wild weedes did spring vp and grow together Now because these meane comparisons should not cause vs deeme the Gospel to bee meane he matcheth it heere with matters of most moment with a Treasure with a Pearle of inestimable riches to reforme our iudgement in spiritual cases that we shuld set more highly by them then we doe as there is good reason why Dauid was so highly conceited of the scriptures as defining them Psalme 119 hee doubteth not to prize them aboue great spoyles for value and thousands of gold and siluer yea all manner of riches Psalme 19 Psalme 119 and to preferre them before the hony the hony combe for sweetenes and when he endeth to define he beginneth to admire Wonderfull are thy testimonies I haue seene an end of all perfection but thy commandement is exceeding broade vnderstanding infinite The necessitie of this Treatise Psalme 107 This doctrine is more than necessary for these dangerous dayes wherein the greater sorte abhorreth this meate and their souls as saith the Psalmograph is at deaths doore The Diuell the Bel-wether of the Polititians of our time resembleth in conditions A similitude subtile souldiers in the wars who hauing won a Castle or strong Tower do stop and shutt vp all passages by the walles that none by any secret entry may come in the deuill