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A80829	The vanity and mischief of making earthly, together with the necessity and benefit of making heavenly treasures our chiefe treasure opened in a sermon at Mary Spittle, before the Right Honorable the Lord Major and court of aldermen, of the city of London, and divers worthy citizens at their solemn anniversarie meeting, on Tuesday in Easter Week, being the 17 of Aprill 1655. / By John Crodacott, preacher of Gods word at Saviours Southwark, and Sepulchres London.	Crodacott, John.	1655 (1655)	Wing C6964; Thomason E844_11; ESTC R210367	30,576	56

have cloathing for your comlinesse and statelinesse how many are there that have scarce food for their hunger when as you have plenty and variety of delicious dishes for your delight and daintinesse many of you cannot say you are not rich men except you be of the judgement of Marcus Crassus whom Plutarch speaks of who accounted no man rich except he could at his own charges maintain an Army Profane Esau could say I have enough my brother I hope you will not prove your selves to be worse then Esau if you be resolved to make it your businesse to satisfie your lusts then I must tell you that you go about an endlesse businesse but I know to whom I speak I hope not to men rich in worldly goods onely but to some that are rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdome which God hath promised to them that love him To you I speak and yet not unto you onely but unto all here before the Lord who have enough to supply your wants and over be merciful be bountiful be open-hearted and open-handed improve your earthly treasures as helps to further you in the attainment of the true heavenly treasure This counsel I crave leave to back with six quickening considerations 1 What hath God and Christ accounted too dear for Consid 1 you the Father accounted not his own son too dear for us the Lord Jesus accounted not his life too dear for us Indeed our Saviour himself was sold at a vile base price namely for 30 pieces of silver Matth. 26.15 They covenanted with him for 30 pieces of silver which price the Prophet Zachariah calleth a goodly price Zach. 11.13 but 't is in scorn disdain the price at which he was prized sold was sordid but were we bought with such a price O! no the Apostle Paul tells us that we are bought with a price 1 Cor. 6.20 And the Apostle Peter telleth us with what price namely not with silver and gold or such corruptible things but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot 1 Pet. 1.18 19. the price of our souls was so high as that the whole Creation was not able to pay it we were base and vile in our selves yet would not our redeemer buy us with a vile a base price nay not with vast treasures of the gold of Ophir or the precious Onyx but with his own precious blood Now shall we count any thing too dear for Christ and his poor members who counted not his own heart blood too dear for us Consid 2 2 What are the things I presse you to lay out for pious uses but such as you had from God woe be unto you if your earthly treasures came not out of Gods hand I will presume they did either they were bequeathed unto you by your parents or friends or you have acquired them by your own industry but who is it that hath made you rich but the Lord and why hath he given you earthly treasures surely not that you might hoard them up for your selves but that you might distribute and communicate them unto others you are but Stewards not owners or proprietaries in reference to God of your earthly treasures These aswell as gifts of minde as Understanding Wisdome and Policy which God hath endowed any of you with these I say are talents which the Lord expects you should not lay up in a napkin but trade with and lay out for his service 3 What do I presse you to part with but what the Consid 3 Lord can return you back again the Rivers empty themselves again in the Sea and the Sea fills all their channels again and cannot the Lord the bottomlesse Ocean return back whatsoever you lay out upon him and for him Notable to this purpose is that portion of Scripture Prov. 11.24 There is that scattereth and yet encreaseth and there is that with-holdeth more then is meet but it tendeth to poverty this is a Paradox a mystery to the world there be some that get by giving and there be others that lose by keeping and not giving so Isai●h 32.8 the liberal man deviseth liberal things yea will a worldling say so may he part with all he hath nay saith the Spirit of God by liberal things shall he stand Well beloved this argument which the Apostle Paul 2 Cor. 9.8 useth to induce men to lay out their earthly treasures for the good of others I leave with you God saith he is able to make all grace abound towards you that ye alwayes having all sufficiency in all things may abound to every good work 4 What are men content to lay out for their lusts Consid 4 how prodigal was that prodigal son of whom it is said Luke 15.13 that he wasted his substance with riotous living yea he spent all vers 14. and as prodigal are many in our dayes when the Devil or their lusts call for pounds when pride or a dainty tooth or a drunken appetite or the fire of a filthy lust calls how profuse and prodigal are many men Now shall hell overbid heaven Shall wicked men empty their bags and pockets to fill their souls with wickednesse and shall not we emptie ours for treasure in heaven so much we finde promised Matth. 19.21 Sell that that thou hast and give to the poor and thou shalt have treasure in heaven Shall men lay out more for their filthy soul-damning lusts then we do for the soul-saving treasure Consid 5 5 What do I presse you to lay out for pious uses but that which you must leave can you carry your earthly treasures with you alas no death is so strict a door-keeper as that 't will look that as you brought nothing into the world so you shall carrie nothing out 1 Tim. 6.7 Nay if your earthlie treasures have been unjustlie gotten or undulie with-held death will strain out all the sweet and leave only the sowre and guilt upon your souls I say if unduly with-held believe it you may lose and damn your precious souls by pinching and saving aswell as by extorting from others the wicked which we read of Matth. 25.41 42 c. are sentenced unto everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels not for robbing but for with-holding bread from the hungrie not for fleecing or uncloathing but for not cloathing the backs of the poor members of Jesus Christ Now whether it be not Christian prudence to lay up in store for your selves a good foundation against the time to come that you may lay hold on eternal life by doing good by being rich in good works ready to distribute and willing to communicate Judge ye In short the world passeth away and not the world onely but the lusts thereof also 1 John 2.17 when you come to leave the world your earthlie treasures will not relish with you but your souls will say I have no pleasure in them Consid 6 6 If God be honoured and the poor members

2 Totum desiderabile all that can be desired 1 The Lord Jesus Christ is altogether desirable his person is desireable his offices are desireable his service is desireable his yoke easie Matth. 11.30 easie in regard of to name no other regards the yoke of sin and Satan Vita vitiosa gravior a vicious life is more laborious and burthensome then a vertuous A man cannot serve a better Master then Christ nor a worse then Sin or Satan this is the first he is altogether desirable 2 The Lord Jesus Christ he is totum desiderabile all that can be desired which is not predicable of any or all the treasures of this world Prov 3.15 All the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto this treasure when Paul had reckoned up all his priviledges and prerogatives and laid them in one scale and this treasure in the other this treasure over-weighed his all besides as you may read Phil. 3.8 I count all things but losse for the excellencie of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord for whom I have suffered the losse of all things and do count them but dung that I may win Christ. What is it that you account deservedly attractive of your love 1 Is it beauty Alas what are the brightest beauties of nature compared unto that beauty which is in Jesus Christ Surely they are but a dim shadow of his beauty Psal 45.2 He is fairer then the children of men when the Church had limmed out his beauty and amiablenesse from top to toe she is forced to break off with a general Elogy Cant. 5.16 He is altogether lovely all the beauty of God the Father is put forth in Christ who is the resplendency of the Fathers glory The light of the Sun in the air what is it but the accidental reflexion of the Suns beames And what is Jesus Christ this precious treasure but the substantial reflexion of the Fathers light beauty and glory Oh! how are the eyes of Angels taken up with beholding the beauty the amiablenesse and lovelinesse of this treasure 2 Is it gain or profit which you account deservedly attractive of your love why the merchandise of this treasure is better then the merchandise of silver and the gain thereof then fine gold it is more precious then rubies Prov. 3.14 15. A man may gain much of the world and yet lose his soul yea a man may lose his soul in gaining the world Matth. 16.26 Thus Demas when once he imbraced the world then farewel Paul and farewel soul too 2 Tim. 4.10 Demas hath forsaken me having loved this present world But he that gaineth this treasure cannot possibly lose his soul the very name of this treasure soundeth salvation Matth. 1.21 Thou shalt call his name Jesus for he shall save his people from their sins In a word that soul that gets a propriety to an interest in this treasure gains more then a Naboths Vineyard and that without an Ahabs Curse a better reward then Naamans without a Gehezies leprosie If ever you will prove your selves wise merchants besure to make choice of this treasure for your chief treasure 3 Is it honour which you account deservedly attractive of your love Alas worldly honour and dignity how airie and slippery is it Haman we read was in a little time both highly favoured at Court and exalted also on the Gallowes And Nebuchadnezzar we finde glorying in his Babel as it were to day and cast out of his Kingdome to morrow deservedly may worldly honour be chronicled for a lye Psal 62.9 Men os high degree are a lie but now all that have title to this treasure are Kings and Priests unto God Revel 1.6 Indeed on earth they are but warring Kings but in heaven they shall be triumphing Kings crowned Kings Revel 4.4 heirs they are of the everlasting Kingdome of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ a Kingdome which cannot be moved Thus you see in general that Iesus Christ is the chiefly desirable treasure 2 More particularly be pleased to consider with me that Iesus Christ is 1 A soul-beautifying treasure 2 A soul satisfying treasure 3 A durable everlasting treasure 1 This treasure is a soul-beautifying treasure the soul of man by nature is of all other things in the world one of the vilest most polluted and loathsome thing in the sight of God but this treasure doth singularly beautifie the soul that hath it Cant. 4.7 Thou art all fair my Love saith Christ to his Church there is no spot in thee to this purpose is that Cant. 6.10 Who is she that looketh forth as the morning fair as the Moon clear as the Sun The Church of Christ by vertue of her title unto and possession of this treasure is clear as the Sun in regard of justification and fair as the Moon in regard of sanctjfication Look as when Jacob wore Esaus garment he was as Esau to his father Isaac and in that relation obteined the blessing so when a poor sinner is cloathed with the white robe of the righteousnesse of this true treasure God the Father looks upon him as if he had fulfilled all righteousnesse 2 This Treasure is a soul-satisfying treasure he that hath an interest in this treasure may lay this conclusion firmly in his own spirit That the same God that hath given unto him this treasure cannot but with him give him all things also Take it in two particulars 1 That soul that hath this treasure hath in the same Charter all things thus the Apostle argues the Churches title to all things from this very ground 1 Cor. 3.21 22 23. All things saith he are yours whether Paul or Apollo or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come all are yours though not in possession yet in free heritage And why all yours because Christ is yours ye are Christs and Christs is Gods Habet omnia qui habet habentem omnia saith Austine He hath all things that hath the God of all things 2 That soul that hath this treasure hath all that he hath by a Covenant-right and not by simple donation onely he hath all by the free-holding of grace his bread not by common providence onely but by Covenant Isa 33.16 Bread shall be given him his waters shall be sure his sleep not by common providence onely but by promise Prov. 3.24 When thou liest down thou shalt not be afraid yea thou shalt lie down and thy sleep shall be sweet What shall I say the very gleanings of this treasure are more filling and satisfying then all the vintage and harvest of earthly treasures Thus you see he is a soul-sasisfying treasure 3 This treasure is a durable a lasting an everlasting treasure Earthly treasures perish in the use yea beloved if you have not a title to this treasure you will have your portion in this world which is dreadful to consider although God should now fill your bellies with hid treasures It is storied of Gregory