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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	godliness_n	grace_n	temperance_n	1,804	5	11.7669	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26034	The best treasure, or, The way to be truly rich being a discourse on Ephes. 3.8, wherein is opened and commended to saints and sinners the personal and purchased riches of Christ, as the best treasure, to be pursu'd and ensur'd by all that would be happy here and hereafter / by Bartholomew Ashwood.	Ashwood, Bartholomew, 1622-1680.	1681 (1681)	Wing A3999; ESTC R16623	259,580	565

Intimacy with Jesus Christ than when he was in the barren Island of Patmos stript of the Confluence of earthly Comforts Elijah never made a better Meal than when he was driven into the Wilderness and the Angel was his Cook 1 Kin. 19. 8. Ah Believers you have never better Allowance of God than when you are cut short in outward things if you be faithful therefore you should be quiet under all Straits and Necessities in the world The day we live in is full of Tryals to many a gracious Soul the wants of many may be more than many think of and 't is now a time to expect more Maintainings from the hand of God and from the Spirit of Grace when outward things are removed when Israel was brought into the Wilderness where was no sowing nor reaping they had their Bread from Heaven and 't is God's usual way to send Meat from his own Table when the Tables of his Children are empty I mean more spiritual Communications from himself if they murmur not but patiently and quietly wait for God's Salvation Lastly Consider Believers 'T is not long you shall be in the way of Wants or Sufferings the time is hastning that will set you beyond the reach of offending Providences nothing shall offend you when you get home to your own Country O! the time is hastning when Moth and Rust cannot consume nor Thieves break thorough and steal Matth. 6. 20. And when afflictive Providences cannot injure your Treasure if the Lord be your Treasure 't is not long you will be open to the Injury of time and to those Casualties that pass upon your Comforts every day Christians brings you farther through the Briars and Thickets of this World and through the barren Wilderness that leads to your Canaan you are travelling apace towards a period of all your Tryals every new hour brings you a step nearer to the Sight and Fruition of your blessed Inheritance Christian Think every Evening now I have a day less to wade through the deep Troubles and Red-sea of this World and to be kept at such strait Allowances and Supplies in this Life O a real Faith of this how should it patient and quiet Believers under present Straits and short Allowances here O! Think upon the coming of the Lord Jam. 5. 7. Be patien● therefore Brethren unto the coming of the Lord behold the Husband-man waiteth for a precious Fruit of the Earth and hath long patience for it He waits a long time before Harvest comes and bears many a wet-day and shall not a Believer wait with more Quietness and hope for a far better Treasure O! Christians if you feel some Difficulties and Straits through want of Supplies Comfort Credit Strength Ease Peace Rest for a little time know Eternity is coming that will make amends for all 7 Duty Seaventhly Live upon your Treasure these unsearchable Riches in Christ for this end hath the Father provided those rich Treasures to satisfie you here and to solace you hereafter 't is laid up in Christ for you not lockt up from you Christians the Lord Jesus is a Fountain sealed to not from you there 's no Bolt between you and your Treasures you may go and fetch supply at all times of need Heb. 4. 16. It hath pleased the Father that in Christ should all Fullness dwell Col. 1. 19. For the use of Believers that he might give eternal Life to all that come to him and be the head of the Body the Fullness that filleth all in all Eph. 1. 23. This is the work he hath undertaken to do and invited all his people to come to him that they might have Life and have it more abundantly he bids them ask and ask again that their Joy might be full Joh. 16. 23 24 26. This is the Will of God that Believers should eat their own Bread with Quietness 2 Thes 3. 12. And make use of this Inheritance for all their Supply and Comfort Christians you cannot make too bold with your own Christ and all his Fullness is your Interest you may wear out your Welcome with men and beg too often at fellow-Creatures doors but you cannot ask too often of free Grace or take too much of Redemption-treasures if you be sure to refer the Measures and time to divine pleasure In all your need come to Christ for whatever you want for the Life that now is and that which is to come this answers the end of the everlasting Covenant and the Fathers placing this store in Christ and Christ's undertaking the Care Conduct and Salvation of all that come to him and this wonderfully pleaseth Christ and advanceth his mediatory Glory this also keeps up the credit and Reputation of the ways of God in the World when Strangers see Believers rich fare and what a Sufficiency is laid up in Christ for them that Christ maintains his own poor that they need not go a begging this commends that State and Government where care is taken to prevent wandring Beggers Besides otherwise the Promises are useless if you come not to Christ for all your Supplies These full Breasts will be injured if you milk them not out Promises are the Bags in which this Treasure is carried out to believers which will wax old if you use them not Christ gets nothing Christians by your Savingness this way the more he lays out upon you the more he lays up for you 8 Duty Eighthly Improve your Interest in these vast Treasures to the enriching of your own Souls are there such Riches in Christ and is this Jesus yours O then labour to be rich also There are two things which I should press you to be rich in 1. In Grace 2. In good Works First You that have Interest in these Treasures of Christ labour to be rich in Grace be not content with the Truth of Grace with little Measures of Grace but strive to abound in Grace 1 Thes 3. 12. For First Grace is the best Treasure and most rationally desirable for it's self All other created Beings are conditionally good so far as God sees them best for us and so far as they conduce to the great end of Gods Glory and our Salvation but Grace is absolutely good because 't is part of the divine Nature and Image of God 2 Pet. 1. 4. Which divine Nature he tells us ver 5. 6. Lies in Faith Vertue Knowledge Temperance Patience Godliness and Charity 'T is absolutely necessary to the glorifying of God and being glorified with God Heb. 11. 6. Without Faith 't is impossible to please God and without Holiness no man can see God Heb. 12. 14. Grace is the best Treasure because the most enduring Treasure the most potent Treasure it can procure more than all the World can Mark 9. 23. All things are possible to him that believeth Indeed created grace cannot by way of Merit or Purchase procure any thing but by way of Appropriation and Meekness it brings that which all the World cannot Grace