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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

not at all your hopes of such great and glorious things upon uncertainties if you miss and fail in your propriety to this Estate you are undone for ever There 's no repairing the loss of Christ when you come to dye All your after-wit cannot mend this bad bargain when time is past If you build upon the sand till the building time be over you will have an Eternitie to repent your folly there 's no room for another adventure when the door of Heaven is shut If you have too carelesly and groundlesly laid your hopes of Christ and Glorie and and so are secure till the time be past you can no more make tryal of a better building O how great will the fa●l of mistaken hopes be at last when the Hypocrite shall say too late wo is me I am deceived all my hopes for Heaven have Proved a Lye I did suppose my title was good and others thought so too I could tell of Experiences and dreamt of closing with Christ I have had my Convictions Desires Tastes Affections Parts Priviledges and high hopes of Glory But alas now I see my building is upon the sand wo to me all must down again I have run in vain and now I must sit down in sorrow to all eternity O lamentable when time is gone to come to such a pass And surely this will be thy case whoever thou art that hast not sure grounds of thy interest in Christ Therefore Christians take not up upon probable hopes but put it out of doubt that Christ is yours and this state is yours Quest But saies the Soul I confess it will be sad and doleful to hear of these excellent treasures and miss of all at last But how might I do to be satisfied in this matter to know that Christ is mine and his Riches mine For the resolution of this Case I shall speak to four things 1. How and in what manner a title to Christ and those glorious treasures are to be obtained 2. Who they are that do obtain them 3. What is requisite towards the obtaining of them 4. What are the certain and specifical fruits and effects of such an obtaining 1. How or in what manner may the soul come to have a Right to Christ Answ There are three usual ways by which persons obtain a Title to a thing 1. By Birth 2. By Purchase 3. By Gift First By Birth On this a natural Relation is founded A Child comes to have a right to his Fathers Inheritance by Birth This way the Blessing and Birth-right fell to the First-born So Esau had his Title to the Birth-right and Blessing could he have kept it Gen. 27. 32. So Manasseh had a right to the Blessing because he was the First-born Gen. 48. 18. Secondly Another way of obtaining a Title to a thing is by Purchase So Jeremiah bought a Field Jer. 32. 25 Thus men get a Title to Estates by Purchase when they part with a considerable value for them Thirdly Another way of Right to a thing is by Gift and Adoption So Jacob came to an Estate in the Land of Goshen and Joseph to the Government of Egypt and Moses the Son-in-Law to Pharaoh by gift and Adoption These are the three usual ways by which an interest is obtained By the first of these man can lay no claim to an interest in Christ By Birth we are Children of wrath Eph. 2. 3. By Purchase man can never get a claim to Christ There 's no buying this Pearl of price Therefore a Title to Christ must come the last way by Gift Faln man having lost his first Estate with all right to life and capacity to regain it by fulfilling the terms in order to it it must needs follow that now if ever he obtain life again it must be on a new account even of Grace The breach of the first Covenant forfeited all and bound over the Offender to death and damnation till which penalty be removed which lost man could never do there cannot possibly be any purchase made of new life and Salvation Rom. 5. 12. Sin hath passed over all men and Death by Sin for that all Men have sinned and by this fall all power of doing good is lost Rom 7. 18. So that now of necessity there must be a change of the first term on which life was to be had there being no possibility in lost man to fulfill them and if ever Salvation comes it must be by grace Eph. 2. 7. and gift The new Covenant gives out all his mercies freely Rev. 21. 7. There 's no place for creature worth and merit in order to Salvation under the Gospel he that will be saved must accept it as a gift That 's the first the way of obtaining Christ He is the Fathers gift and his own gift Gal. 2. 20. God gives Christ to whom he pleaseth not for any distinguishing worth in the Creature but from the good pleasure of his will Eph. 1. 11. 2. Who are they that obtain Christ and Salvation by him Answ It is they that come to and receive Christ by Faith Joh. 1. 12. To as many as received him to them gave he power to become the Sons of God Christ is offerd in the Gospel by grace and is received by faith the acceptance as offer'd of God is that which interests the Soul in him This is called a comming to Christ Mat. 11. 28. A letting Christ into the heart Eph. 3. 17. A believing in him 1 Joh. 5. 10. He that believes in the Son of God hath the witness in himself That is the witness of right to Christ and life ver 11. And this is the record God hath given us Life Eternall and all this in his Son For where a gift is freely tendred to all that will receive it there needs nothing to make that Person fit for that gift but accepting the offer as tenderd to him Neither doth this acceptance make a Person worthy of the gift but fulfills the terms in order to an Interest in it If a sum of money be offered to a poor man and he is called to receive it this receiving doth not merit it but appropriate it So that the Persons to whom Christ is tenderd is to sinners to all sinners to the chiefest of Sinners 1 Tim. 1. 15. And to every one of them Isa 55. 1. Ioh. 7. 37. And the terms on which he is held out is freel● without money and without price and nothing is required to entitle them to this glorious gift but their receiving it as tendred 3. What is necessary to the obtaining of Christ and and so of those glorious Treasures in him Without which Persons cannot will not come to him Answ There are prerequisites to the Souls obtaining of Christ Though they do not merit Christ yet are necessary to the receiving of him First That the Sinner be brought to see his absolute need of Christ and his everlasting undoneness without him This course the Spirit of God took

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 Late Minister of the Gospel Author of The Heavenly Trade Riches and Honour are with me yea durable Riches and Righteousness Prov. 8. 18. For ye know the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was Rich yet for your sakes he became Poor that ye through his Poverty might be Rich. 2 Cor. 8. 9. In Christo igitur sitae sunt omnes nostrae Divitiae In Christo sita spes nostrae gloriae Daven LONDON Printed for William Marshal at the Bible in Newgate-Street at the corner of Ivy Lane 1681. TO THE READER THE Wisdom and Grace of God in Christ Jesus are frequently in the Scripture expressed by the name of Riches and Treasures These it is the duty of Believers in all Ages diligently to search after to enquire into and possess for themselves And it may be more Diligence or with more Success as unto the doctrinal Revelation of them hath not been used in this Enquiry in any Age than in that wherein we live But still they continue Unsearchable though not absolutely as unto their Truth Reality and Substance or such a possession of them as may enrich us unto a Meetness for the Inheritance of the Saints in Light but as unto their unmeasurable Dimensions their Breadth and Length and Depth and Height in Degrees of Fullness Wherefore after the utmost and most diligent search made into these things by the best and wisest of the Sons of men there is still and ever will be new work for the Church whilst it is in this world to enquire farther after and into these Treasures Nothing but the sight of Christ himself in Glory can give us a full comprehension of them Whilst we are here below no man can exercise his spiritual Wisdom and Faith about a more noble a more useful and beneficial object They do best for themselves who are most conversant herein and will be sound to be the most spiritual and thriving Christians And therefore those who are not only wise for themselves herein but do moreover communicate unto others the knowledge that they have obtained of these unsearchable Treasures and their insight into them that they also may be made Partakers of them do deserve well in an eminent manner of all that do believe Among these the reverend Author of the ensuing Discourse if I mistake not doth deserve our Praise and our Thanks to God for him and his Labours For as he hath given Evidence that he was himself in a good measure admitted into the enjoyment of these unsearchable Riches so he hath with great skill and spiritual wisdom unfolded and laid them open unto the view of others And this he hath done so briefly plainly and practically that the most learned will find nothing in his Discourse to be despised and the generality of Believers whose Edification he designed will meet with that which will be to their Vse and Advantage The times also wherein we live do render this and discourses of the like Nature exceeding seasonable For the Vncertainty of the continuance of all other Riches should stir us up to look with diligence after an indefeasible Interest in the certain and unsearchable Riches of Christ For as these alone are sufficient for us in every Condition so we know not but that e're long they alone will be left unto us blessed are all they who are possessed of them Besides the Opposition that hath been made of late by some unto these and the like Mysteries of the Gospel doth give a value unto a sober Testimony given unto them Of this Nature is the ensuing Discourse which that it may be useful to the Reader unto all the ends whereunto it was designed by it's worthy Author shall be the Prayer of his Servant in the work of the Gospel John Owen THE BEST TREASURE From EPHESIANS 3. 8. Vnto me who am less than the least of all Saints is this grace given that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ CHAP. I. The Occasion of this Discourse with an Introduction to the Words and Explication of them and the main truth contained in them RICHES are desired by most but true Treasures obtained by few through the mistaken Notion thereof 'T is sad to see how sollicitous many are after Vanities and like the Jews in Egypt are scattered abroad through all the Land to gather Stubble whilst tryed Gold lies neglected and the Pearl of Price little valued O the Projects and vast expence of Time and strength to reach things that are not when the infinite Concerns of Eternity and welfare of an immortal Soul cannot get a room in one serious thought or a few minutes of shortening time to attend them 'T is lamentable to behold not only the blind World but those that profess themselves Wise like the Spider working out their Bowels to weave Cobwebs and with the Dog in the Fable letting go the Substance to catch at Shadows and running themselves out of breath to sit down in sorrow The affecting sense of this Folly hath made me scatter some Balls of true Gold to prevent if possible the dangerous haste of such deceived Souls and to allure them to better and more unsearchable Treasures that are to be found in and fetched from the Lord Jesus This is the Design of the ensuing Discourse on this portion of Scripture which I shall briefly open and then draw forth the main Conclusion I intend to prosecute The Apostle layes down these words as an Argument by which he endeavours to strengthen the Faith of those believing Ephesians in and to quicken their Affections to the Gospel of Christ taken from the blessed Advantages it brings to all that do receive it It makes a Discovery and overture of unsearchable Riches to them let them be never so poor destitute of the affluences and good things of this World yet by believing through this Gospel they shall come to attain to inestimable Treasures even the unsearchable Riches of Christ In the Words you have four parts First A Discovery of the admirable Love of God to fall'n man particularly to the blind perishing Gentiles in not only giving Christ to save them but in opening Christ to them even his secret and boundless Treasures The unsearchable Riches of Christ Secondly Here 's the way by which these are opened and brought to light which is by the Gospel in the Administration thereof by his Messengers That I should preach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 strictly taken 't is to preach the Gospel or good news but generally it takes in the whole work of the Ministry Thirdly Here 's the great expence of Grace the Lord Jesus is at to bring forth his