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A61776 The certainty of heavenly and the uncertainty of earthly treasures together with a discovery where the treasure and heart is placed / as it was delivered in severall sermons by that eminently faithfull servant of Christ, Mr. William Strong ... Strong, William, d. 1654. 1654 (1654) Wing S5998 58,281 207

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much for God thinks no pains too much that he layes out for God so Haman loves his revenge and he will give the King much for the ruine of the Jews David when he came to build the Temple thought he could never spend enough about the Temple It is a large heart that makes an hand therefore where your love is there 's your bounty 4. 4 Love is laborious Love is laborious it grudgeth no pains Heb. 6.10 It is called the labour of love a mans labour is sutable to his love he that labors most loves most If a man loves riches he labours for them Hab. 2.13 Labouring in vain is called labouring in the fire you shall know where your love is by your labour Eccle. 4.8 There 's a man hath no end of all his labour why so There 's his love His eye is not satisfied with Riches The Lord Jesus Christ his love to his Father made him labour in the worke of his Father till he had spent his strength and dryed up his radicall humours Isai 49.4 For a man that 's sloathful there 's no love in him lazy love is pretended love where love is according to the degree of it such a mans labour will be O you that are dead and dull in holy duties strengthen your love and you will mend your pace It s an observation of one of the Ancients That love that doth not put forth it selfe to its utmost endeavour is unsound love that which goes to its strength and no more that 's true love but weake love strong love bends to impossibilities it will labour in those things which 't is impossible to obtain It 's observed of Mary her love out-bid her strength therefore examine where the great labour of your lives hath been how much have I laboured for the things of this world and how little have I laboured for the things of another world for God Christ 5. 5 Love is venturous Would you know where your love is love is venturous it will hazard any thing for the thing beloved our Saviour Christ gives you an evidence of it he doth not onely venture his life but lay down his life Greater love hath no man then this that a man lay down his life for his friend Ioh. 15.13 and Psal 69.9 The reproach of them that reproached thee hath fallen upon me It was a gracious speech of an Ancient If the Lord make use of me to keepe off reproach from himselfe I shall looke upon it as a great priviledge as a great honour Where is the man that for the truths of God and Christ will hazard the losse of friends the losse of his estate the losse of his blood True love turns cowardize into courage the Hen though but a feeble Creature yet will hazard her selfe against the most ravenous Birds that come to devour her Chickens so will the mother if her child be in danger Take a man whose love is set on lust and what will not the man hazard for it he will lose his friends he will spend his estate he will blast his reputation he will hazard his soule and all for the love he beares to sin and indeed what 's that which makes men despise the judgements of God it's their love to sin then enquire and examine your selves where your adventures are there is your love 6. 6 Love is zealous Love is zealous I doe not mean by zeale a zeale of suspition of evill in the party beloved which we call jealousy for love thinks no evill 1 Cor. 13.4 But when I say love is zealous I meane it is full of solicitude fearing that any injurie or wrong should be offered to the person or thing beloved Moses the meekest man upon earth yet Moses's meeknesse is turned into anger when wrong is done to the God of his life and the God of his love and he breaks the Tables The Lord Jesus Christ out of love to his Father saith The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up Iob. 2.17 Zeal in the heart is like boiling water that wasts in the seething it makes a man over-look all interests considering himselfe in the world to be wholly intended to carry on the interests of the party belove So it is with godly men for zeale is a mixt affection 't is nothing else but love provoked therfore Hoster speaks the language of love How should I endure to see the evil that should come upon me and upon my people Est 8.6 Tel me what are you zealous for where 's your zeale Touch a man in his Reputation and you may quickly see where his love and zeal is touch God in his name Christ in his truth then saith Paul To whom we gave place no not for an houre that the truth of the Gospel might continue with you Gal. 2.5 Love is provoked with any thing and comes contrary to Christ and his truth I would have zeale to be turned into fire and so it will be where love is for God and his glory Examine therefore what it is that makes you hot on every occasion where thy zeal is there is thy love for love is zealous 7. 7 Love i● fearful of separation Love is very fearful of separation from the thing beloved it desires nothing more then union it fears nothing more then separation it s the Spouses expression Cant. 3.4 When I sound him I held him and would not let him go Austin gives that as the difference between true and uncleane love between the love of a Wife and the love of a Harlot both fear the husband but the one fears lest the husband should come the other fears lest the husband should depart the affections of the soule in this way are seen very much Death is called the King of terror because its a separation of the soule from the body love it loves union and he that loves dyes himselfe to live in the thing beloved for this cause the great consolation of the Saints lies in this who shall separate us from the love of God c Rom. 8.30 31. For in the absence of the love of the thing beloved the heart languishes ●n union with the thing loved the heart rejoyces and in separation from the thing loved the heart dyes and perishes for this cause is this the great cordial to the Saints that there is no separation between their love and their beloved The unhappinesse of wicked men lies in this that they love that which shall be separated from them Riches make to themselves wings flie away P o. 23.5 And thou fool this night shall thy soul be taken away from thee and then whose shall these things be Luk. 12.20 So Amos 4.2 I will take away thy posterity with fish-hooks As easily as the fish is drawn out of the water with a hooke so will I take them away with Fish-hooks Therefore when an ungodly man dies his love dies because his beloved ceaseth when he dies A godly man