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A31961	An Exact collection of farewel sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy, Mr. Watson, Mr. Jacomb, Mr. Case, Mr. Sclater, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Jenkin, Dr. Manton, Mr. Lye, Mr. Collins : to which is added their prayers before and after sermon as also Mr. Calamy's sermon for which he was imprisoned in Newgate : his sermon at Mr. Ashe's funeral and Dr. Horton's and Mr. Nalton's funeral.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1662 (1662)	Wing C241; ESTC R1910	251,365	374

baseness in advanced wickedness a poor minister of Jesus Christ when he is cast out by the world and thinks he shall be counted the scum of the world yet let him not be troubled as it was with Christ it is with the servants of Christ the Lord Jesus when he was here upon earth no man under so much ignominy and reproach and persecution yet all this while Jesus Christ had a secret glory that shined through all these ignominies and disgraces you read he was laid in a manger but then he was worshipped sometimes you shall read he had no money but yet then he could command that a fish should be caught and he could have money somtimes a weary and yet at that very time converts a woman Look through the whole course of his life there was a secret glory under all his ignominy when he was brought before his enemies yet then they fell down before him take heed of dishonouring God Thus it is with the people of God they are in distress and poverty but there is a secret dignity that beams forth as the Apostle saith the Spirit of God and glory rest upon you If you be persecuted for righteousness sake blessed are you on the other side when rich men are in high esteem is there not a secret disgrace to be in a high place and yet to be a swearer a drunkard a whoremaster 4. You see the way of it how a man may get a good name would you be as those holy men are said to be that obtained a good report through faith I will tell thee the way be a holy man take heed of sinning take heed of dishonouring God this will make thee that thy name shall never rot and God will have thee in everlasting remembrance 5. I note from hence the certain happiness of those beholders that do see this excellency and worth in the people of God under worldly contempt and under worldly ignominy and disgrace for the comfort of these let me tell them if there be any thing in the world a sign of a gracious heart it is this to love holiness for holiness sake when it is advanced is good but to love holiness when it is upon a dunghil and is spit upon and persecuted that man shows the truth of grace and the strength of grace too It is a sign not only of a true sight but of a strong sight to pierce so as to see a godly man beautiful in sufferings and remember this for certain the Lord will have an eye to thee There is a great deal of comfort may come to thy soul in all thy distresses here is a ground of comfort First In thy infirmities Dost thou love holiness when it is compassed about with sorrows and troubles and persecutions Certainly Christ will see the truth of thy grace in the midst of all thy infirmities and he will know a little of his own in the midst of a great deal of ours but then in our outward trouble there is comfort Do you think if you regard not Gods people in their sufferings that he will regard you in your sufferings If you remember the godly poor God will make your bed in your sickness God will remember what you did at such a time such a visit thou gavest to such a one of mine in pri●…on and such a time tho●… didst so ●…nd ●…o those that have k●…pt close to ●…od in their outward highness he will never c●…st them off for their lowne●…s you ●…an see nothing of grace in our selves nothing but hypocrisie yet c●…st ●…ou say Lord I love thee in thy Image I love the Lord J●…s Christ in his wo●…st 〈◊〉 I love him in his Members this hath brought many a servant of God comfort in the ●…wangs of his conscience But then there is abundant comfort to the people of God at the last day when they shall appear before all the world when they that have persecuted Christ and his Church and ●…eople do fear and tremble yet then mayest thou say Remember Lord what I have done it is a token I am one that thou in●…endest good too because thou hast kept me faithful to thee and thy cause Do you think a Judge will condemn that man that hath saved the life of his dear W●…fe but when you shall appear before the Judgement seat at the great day and every pot of water and every rag that thou h●…st given to the Spouse of Christ shall be remembred do you think he will not reward it To conclude all let me note but this one thing that now the people of God from hence should learn and that is not to be discouraged in any outward re●…roach or trouble that can befal them in this world remember at that very time God hath a good opinion of you though you be never so mean and low in 〈◊〉 account of the world yet the Saints of God who are the only wise men in the world these have a good opinion of you and love you and pray for you and pitty you I profess the love of one Saint is that that makes amends to a gracious heart for all the hatred and persecution that he endures from all the sinners in the world and then remember that even the wicked themselves will have a good opinion of you when you do not comply with thei●… superstitious wayes and practises and if all this will not comfor●… you remember your own consciences which is as a thousand witnesses will one day comfort you and though you are under disgrace and contempt and reproach from wicked men yet remember no man is a miserable man for any opinion another hath of him so long as God keeps thee close and faithful to him either thy conscience doth comfort thee or it shall and it is a good conscience that will give the best acquittance And then to conclude all for thee to have the whole number of God●… people to look upon thee to be an unworthy and vile man I look upon it to be a greater disgrace then to have all the ignominy and disgrace that the world can lay upon you remember when godly men are ●…fraid of you you have very much cause to be afraid of your self and remember there is much reason for you to put you upon the looking and narrow enquiry into your own hearts and wayes when the people of God that God hath given his Spirit too stands at a distance from you and are afraid to come nigh you Mr. Jenkins's Afternoon Sermon Exod. 3. 2 3 4 5. And the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a Bush and he looked and behold the Bush burned with fire and the Bush was not consumed And Moses said I will now turn aside and see this great sight why the Bush is not burnt And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see God called unto him out of the midst of the Bush and said Moses

had murdered Christ forty years after they were brought into that distress when the City was besieged by Titus and Vespasian that they did eat one another the mother did eat her child And whereas David had a choice which of the three he would have either Famine Plague or Sword the poor Jews had all three concatenated together in the siege Sin brings all manner of external Plagues 2. Sins bring Persons Nations into internal straits sin brings soul-plagues which are worse than bodily plagues sin brings hardness of heart blindness of mind a spirit of slumber a reprobate sense sinne brings a spiritual famine upon a Land it brings a famine of the Word Amos 8. 11. sin causes God to take away the Gospel from a people Sin brings internal plagues sin awakens Conscience and fills it full of perplexities Into what a strait did sin drive Iudas after he had betrayed Christ Into what a strait did sin drive Spira Saint Paul gloryed in his tribulations for God but when he speaks of his sin he cryeth out O miserable man that I am Who shall deliver me from this body of death David a valiant man when he speaks of sin he saith They are too heavy a burden for him to bear Awounded Conscience who can bear saith the Wise man 3. Sin bringeth eternal straits O the strait that a wicked man shall be brought into at the great and dreadful day of Judgment when all the world shall be on fire about him when he shall call to the Mountains to hide him and to the rocks to cover him from the wrath of God then will he cry out with David I am O Lord in a great strait And when the wicked shall be condemned to Hell who can express the straits they then shall be in Bind them hand and foot and cast them into everlasting darkness Matth. 25. When a wicked man shall be bound with everlasting chains of darkness then he will cry out I am in a great strait Consider what Dives saith to Abraham he desires that Lazarus might but dip the tip of his finger in water and that he might cool his tongue not his whole body but his tongue but that would not be granted It is impossible the tongue of man should set out the great straits the damned suffer in Hell both in regard of the greatness and everlastingness of them This is all I shall say for the Explication Use 1. I chiefly aim at the Application Doth sin bring Nations and Persons into external internal and eternal straits then this sadly reproves those that choose to commit sin to avoid perplexity There are thousands in England guilty of this that to avoid poverty will lye cheat and cozen and to gain an Estate will sell God and a good Conscience and to avoid the loss of estate and imprisonment will do any thing they will be sure to be of that Religion which is uppermost be it what it will Now give me leave this morning to speak three things to these sorts of men and O that my words might prevail with them 1. Consider It is sin only that makes trouble to deserve the name of trouble for when we suffer for Gods sake or a good Conscience these troubles are so sweetned by the Consolations of Heaven that they are no troubles at all therefore in Q. Maries days the Martyrs wrote to their friends out of Prison If you knew the Comforts we have in prison you would wish to be with us I am in prison before I am in prison saith Master Sanders Famous is the story of the three Children they were in a great strait when cast into the fiery Furnace Bind them hand and foot and cast them into the Furnace but when they were there they were unbound Dan. 3. 25. saith Nebuchadnezzar Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire and lo I see four men loose walking in the midst of the fire and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God I have often told you when three are cast into the fire for a good Conscience God will make the fourth therefore I say straits and sufferings for God are not worth the name of straits David was often driven into straits 1 Sam. 30. 6. he was sore distressed when his Town was burnt and his Wives and Children taken captive by the Amalekites I but that was a distress of danger not of sin therefore he encourageth himself in the Lord his God Iehosaphat was in a great strait 2 Chron. 20. 12. We know not what to do saith he this was a strait of danger not caused by his sin and God quickly delivered him but the strait that David was in was caused by his sin and that made it so bitter I am loth to enlarge here St. Paul was in a great Strait Phil. 3. 23. but this was a blessed strait an Evangelical strait saith Saint Chrysostom He knew not whether to die for his own sake or to live for the Churches sake were best he was willing to adjourn his going to Heaven for the good of the people of God Nay Christ was in a strait Luk. 12. 15. I have a Baptism to be baptized withall and how am I straitned till it be accomplished I am to shed my blood for my Elect that is the Baptism he speaks of This was a strait of dear affection to the Elect of God all these were blessed straits but now straits caused by sin these are imbittered and e●…venomed by the guilt of sin and sense of Gods Wrath. It is sin that maketh straits deserve the name of straits therefore you are spiritually mad that commit sin to avoid straits 2. There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest outward calamity whatsoever this the world will not believe therefore St. Austin saith That a man ought not to tell a lie though he might save all the world from hell for there is more evil in one lie than there is good in the salvation of all the world I have often told you the story of Saint Austin saith he If hell were on one side and ●…in on the other and I must choose one I would choose Hell rather then Sin for God is the Author of Hell but it is blasphemy to say He is the Author of sin There is a famous story of Charles the ninth King of France he sent a message to the Prince of Condy a zealous Protestant gives him three things to choose either to go to Mass or to be put to death or to suffer banishment all his life long saith he Primum Deo juvante nunquam eligam The first God helping I will never choose I abhor the idolatry of the Mass but for the two other I leave it to the choice of the King 〈◊〉 do 〈◊〉 he pleases there is more evil in the le●…st sin then the greatest misery 3. The third thing I would have you consider is that whosoever goeth out of God's way to

or faint in it Sin you know is twofold Original and Actual Actual sin is not meant primarily for that is not peccatum agens sin that easily besets us but peccatum transiens the sin that passes from us and Original sin is that which is emphatically called sin Rom. 7. 8. Now this original corruption may be considered as meerly native or as acquired and improved into evil customes and habits for according to mens tempers and constitutions as they are severally disposed so by the corruption of nature they are inclin'd to one sin more then another as the channel is cut so corrupt nature finds a vent and issue in every man there is some predominant sin and in every regenerate person some relicks of that sin from whence is the greatest danger of his soul thus David speaks of his iniquity Psalm 18. 23. Well then this is that sin that doth easily beset us Original sin improved into some tyranny or evil custome which doth encrease and prevail upon us more and more Now this is said easily to beset us for three reasons Partly because it hath a great power and restraint over us and implies the whole man the members of the body the faculties of the soul so great an interest hath it acquired in our affections it doth easily beset us it hath great power and command over us Partly because it sticks so close that we cannot by our own strength lay it aside Ier. 13. 23. Can the Ethtopian change his skin or the Leopard his spots c A man can as ●…oon change his skin as lay aside his customes that are so deeply engraven as the blackness of an Ethiopian or the spots of the Leopard And partly because it mingles it self with all our motions and actions Rom. 7. 21 c. It easily besets us 't is present with us it impels us and solicites us and draws us to sin further and further and make us negligent in what is Gods we cannot do or speak any thing but it will infest us in all our duties of piety charity justice on every side it is interposing vexing thwarting the motions of the Spirit and so abates our strength vigour and agility and retards our course towards heaven and glory therefore lay aside as every weight so every sin c. Quest. Now what is it to lay aside or how can we lay aside since sin sticks so close to us and is engraven in our natures Ans. Certainly something may be done by us for this is every where pressed as our duty Ephes. 4. 4. 22. Put off the old man and 1 Pet. 2. 11. we may put it off more and more though we cannot lay it aside Then we are said to lay aside the sin that so easily besets us when we prevent and break the dominion of it that it shall not raign over us Rom. 6 12. Let not sin reign c. Though it dwells in us lives in us and works in us yet it should not overcome us and bring us into bondage and so it will not be imputed to our condemnation and at length when the soul shall be separated from the body we shall be wholly free from it Quest. I but what must we do that we may so repress it the question returns that we may break the domonion of it Ans. I answer this is the work of the Spirit of God but we must know the Spirit of God doth work the work of mortification two wayes By Regeneration and after Regeneration By Regeneration and so he doth immediately without any co-operation of ours mortifie the deeds of sin gives sin its death-wound That which is left is as a thing mortified it is broken the Scripture often speaks of this first work of Regeneration Rom. 6. 6. Col. 2. 11. First when we are planted into Christ then we put off the body of sin and though it doth not presently dye yet it is weakened that it cannot reign though it be not destroyed 2. After Regeneration the Spirit doth more and more destroy sin the reliques of sin this crucified body of sin till it dieth wholly away this he doth in us but not without us Rom. 8. 13. Through the Spirit mortifie the deeds of the body Not the Spirit without us nor we without the Spirit but ye through the Spirit What is then required of us 1. Seriously purpose not to sin and promise to God to yield him unfeigned obedience Especially should we make this promise in the use of those solemn Rights by which the Covenant between God and us is confirmed Take up a solemn purpose not to grieve the Spirit nor to break his Law Psal. 119. 106. I have sworn and I will perform it that I will keep thy righteous Iudgements This purpose of heart is the root of all good actions therefore in the confidence of Gods help in the sence of thy own weakness Psalm 119. 32. we cannot lay Wagers upon our own strength yet it is our duty to engage our hearts to God To sin against the light of our own Conscience and illumination of the Spirit and the chastening and instruction of our own reins that aggravates our sin but to sin against and besides our fixed purpose of not sinning that lightens sin for then it is a sin of weaknesse and infirmity not of wilfulness and malice and then we can say as Paul Rom. 7. 19. when the heart is fixedly bent towards God The evil which I would not that do I. Two wayes may we be said to sin against purpose either when we are over-born besides our purpose our purpose still remains to please God As when the water breaks over the bank the bank remaining in such a case the fault is not in the bank but in the violence of the flood Or secondly when we break off our purpose or consent to do evil as when we cut through the bank the water may easily make through There is a great deal of difference between sin dwelling in us and sin entertained by us between sin remaining and sin reserved and when you have a firm purpose against all sin there is sin remaining but it is not reserved but it is not kept and allowed 2. Watch over thy self with a holy self-suspition because thou hast sin within thee that doth easily beset thee therefore consider thy wayes Psal. 119. 59. Guard thy sences Iob 31. 1. but above all keep thy heart Prov. 4. 23. Conscience must stand Porter at the door and examine what comes in and what goes out watch over the stratagems of Satan and seducing motions of thy own heart 3. Resist and oppose strongly against the first risings of the flesh and the tickling and pleasing motions of sin that doth easily beset us when it doth intice us away from God or do any thing that is unseemly and contrary unto the duties of our heavenly calling Oh! remember we are not debtors to the flesh Rom. 8. 20. Thou art tyed to the Lord by all obligations and

conversion sins against prayers vows promises covenants and oaths O Lord if thou didst prefer thy bill against us we could not stand if we were weighed in the ballance of the sanctuary we should be sound too light But holy Father remember not against us our former sin ●…t rather have mercy upon us according to thy loving kindness cross and blot out our iniquitres blot them out so fully and wholly that it may be to us as to Judah in the promise that the sins of Judah should be sought for and not found Oh bathe our souls in that fountain that was set open for Judah and Jerusalem though our sins have been as scarlet let them be as white as snow though they be red like crimson let them be like wool We have read that a flood of sin brought down a deluge of water that they covered the tops of the mountains O let thy deluge of mercy cover the tops of the mountains of our sins It is the glory of a God to pardon great sins we desire to turn unto thee with our whole hearts do thou subdue our iniquities let us be not only cleansed but let us have the efficacy of the Spirit of Christ to wish us from the guilt of sin because we boast we are not under the law but under grace Be gracious to our Soveraign Lord Charles King of England Scotland France and Ireland it is thy promise that Kings shall be nursing fathers to thy children grant that under the shadow of his Majesty thy people may be protected that we may live a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty oh let thy people possess the land from Dan to Bersheba oh give us Scripture-Magistrates and Gospel-Ministers as long as the Sun and Moon endures Let thy Word be sanctified to us let it not be only as water to get out our spots but as a refiners fire to purge our dross take away our tin And Holy Father where thou hast begun a good work do thou go on and bring it to perfection let not the light that is in us be like the glimmering light of the evening but as the light of the morning that shineth more and more to the day Let our best wine be kept till the last let the end of our lives be the end of sinning Thou hast cast our lot in the midst of temptations of all sorts thou hast brought many of us through the red Sea but yet we are in the wilderness with Zeba and Z●…lmunna and those that dwell at Tyre the children of Ammon Moab and mount Seir and all the forces that Hell can make against us oh put upon us all the whole armour of God Now in these dayes of error gird us with the girdle of truth oh now in these dayes of falsily give us a ●…etmet of hope Now the devil darts at us give us the shield of faith oh give us the sword of the Spirit of the Word of God that it may enable us to confute the gain sayings of foolish men Oh help us to pray with all manner of prayer constantly servently faithfully feelingly that we may stand and not fall and that not in our strength but in Gods To this end be with us upon this thine own day our Manna falls every day and is doubled upon the Lords day oh let us be as thy servant John in the spirit upon thine own day let God by his spirit come into our spirits understandings consciences wills memories and affections that all our conversations without and affections within may be obedient to thy word Enable thy servant to deliver thy word faithfully God forbid thy servant should stand upon so sandy a foundation as the wisdom of man one Iota of thy word has more wisdom in it then all men and Angels have Good Father give thy people a hearing ear it is too much they have played by the light of thy candle and slighted thy Manna so long oh now therefore to day give us to hear and know and believe and do the things that concern our everlasting peace hear us for Christ his sake to whom with thy blessed self and Spirit be glory now and for ever Mr. Lye's Forenoon Sermon Phil. 4. 1. Therefore my Brethren dearly beloved and longed for my joy and crown so stand fast in the Lord my dearly beloved MY Beloved I do very well remember that upon the four and twentieth day of this instant month 1651. I was then under the sentence of Banishment and that very day did I preach my farewell Sermon to my people from whom I was banished because I would not swear against my King having sworn to maintain his just Power Honour and Greatness and now behold a second tryal Then I could not forswear my self the God of Heaven keep me that I never may I am apt to think I could do any thing for this loving Congregation only I cannot sin But since beloved there is a sentance gone out against us that we that cannot subscribe must not subsist this is the last day that is prefixed to us to preach I shall now speak to you God assisting me if my passion will give me leave just as if I would speak if I were immediately to die therefore hearken my Brethren dearly beloved and longed for my Ioy and Crown so stand fast in the Lord my dearly beloved Paul was now a Prisoner at Rome for the Gospel of Christ it was his second imprisonment and he was not far from being offered up a sacrifice for the Gospel he had preached This Gospel the Philippians had heard him preach and the godly Philippians having heard of his imprisonment they sent from Philippi to Rome to visit him and to supply his wants a gracious temper which I hope the eternal God hath given the Saints in London and for which if for any thing God hath a blessing in store for them Paul is not so much concerned in his own bands as in the Philippians Estate Epaphroditus tells him that there were Heresies and false Doctrines got in amongst them but yet the Philippians stood fast and herein Paul rejoyces writes this Epistle bids them go on stand fast keep their ground and to be sure not to give an inch but to stand fast knowing that at a long run their labour should not be in vain in the Lord. A most melting Compellation and a most serious Exhor●… 1. A melting Compellation My Brethren dearly beloved c. 2. A serious Exhortation and in it 1. the matter of the duty stand and stand it out and stand fast 2. The manner 1. So stand so as you have stood stand fast 2. In the Lord stand so and stand in the Lord in the Lords strength and in the Lords Cause to stand in your own strength would be the ready way to fall and to stand in your own cause for your own fancy would be the ready way to expose your selves to all manner of temptations Therefore my Brethren dearly

of this world only but spiritual things in some sort as to enjoy them and partake of them in this life have their inconveniences and disparagement annext and are mingled with something that abates of their worth an instance of which we have here in this present Scripture which the Apostle Paul signifies to us concerning the enjoyment of the Ministry of the Gospel of Christ. He had in the verse before the Text told us the great priviledge that both Ministers and others had in having the glorious Gospel viz. The light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Iesus Christ shining into our hearts the consideration of which is of great encouragement to us yet adds this as a qualification of it viz. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels c. That which doth qualifie it is That this excellent treasure hath its conveyances through weak and mean persons men of frailty and mortality In the words there are two main parts I. The Dispensation it self II. The Account of it I. The Dispensation it self This Treasure we have in earthen Vessels c. II. The account of it That the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us I shall begin with the first the Dispensation it self which hath two branches 1. The Depositum the thing laid up 2. The Repository in which this Treasure is laid up First The Depositum or thing laid up which is a Treasure and what is this Treasure but the Gospel of Jesus Christ The Gospel is a Treasure according to a twofold consideration In respect of the 1. Matter of it 2. Ministry of it Both make up a treasure The Matter of it the things of the Gospel are rich things and the conveyances of it the Ministerial gifts and ability by which the Gospel is administred do make up the Treasure 'T is a treasure in both respects 2. In respect of the matter of it therefore it is we read of the Riches of Christ of the Riches of the Gospel The Scripture makes mention of three things wherein the Gospel is agreeable to a treasure 2. A Treasure is a thing of dignity and worth it is not a company of pebbles though many that will make up a Treasure a Treasure consists of things of worth and dignity and thus is the Gospel in it are contained excellent and admirable truths the Mysteries of salvation by Christ the doctrine of the Gospel brings glad tidings of peace and reconciliation with God in Christ there we have the gifts and graces of God there we have glory and immortality c. and those things in the Gospel Gospel are administred to us there is no science in the world brings such treasure as this 2. The Gospel is a treasure for variety abundance and plurality 'T is not one thing of worth but many that makes up a treasure if few yet much worth must be comprehended in them so in the Gospel we have the manifold wisdome of God the rich Treasures of Wisdome and Knowledge The Gospel though it be but one for substance yet 't is many for improvements 't is a chain of many links one saith but divers articles of it so it is a treasure in that respect 3. 'T is a treasure for its closeness we do not open a treasure to every one but it is kept close The Gospel is a secret mystery hidden not revealed to every one it is not discovered to carnal worldly men though it may be revealed to them in the outward proposition yet not in the spirituality of it But where shall wisdome be found and where is the place of understanding saith I●…b ch 28. v. 12. The peace of the Gospel is a treasure hid in the field not found by every one 2. The Gospel is a treasure in respect of the Ministry of it so the Apostle hints 't is not only light but a shining light which hath shining into our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the Glory of God c. 'T is a treasure in this respect viz. in the discovery and shining of it the conveyances the several gifts and graces of the Ministery by which the Gospel is conveyed to us makes up a treasure and as the Ministry is a treasure so the opportunities and advantages thereof are Thus the Gospel and the Ministry thereof is precious and ought to be esteemed and made use of by us We should highly account of the Gospel and put a high value on it for it is a treasure yea it is a treasure in the want of other treasures they are rich that are made partakers of it Silver and gold have I none saith St. Peter to the Cripple but such as I have I give it thee this is the priviledge of Ministers though it may be poor in respect of themselves yet are rich to others These excellent riches are committed to us and accordingly we must not only make use of them our selves but make them known to others the Gospel is a treasure not for us to keep but to discover reveal and manifest to others to give the light of the glory of God c. This is the work of the Ministry We have indeed this treasure but not for our selves only but for others so we are to keep it to preserve and maintain it but so as to be diligent to impart what is committed to us for the edification of others Every Scribe instructed in the Kingdome of Heaven as a good house-holder bringeth forth things new and old The Gospel is a treasure therefore we ought to carry our selves answerable to it As 1. We must labour for it be diligent in the search of it dig for it as for hidden treasur●…s Lift up thy voice for understanding c. Prov. 2. 2 3 4. Dig for it you know there is a great deal of pains taken and labour used to get worldly treasure Wh●…t would not men venture for it they will go over Sea and Land go through fire and water expose themselves to all dangers for earthly treasure make unto themselves Friends of the Mammon of unrighteousness pass away a great deal of time and take a great deal of care for it 2. Esteem this treasure this heavenly wisdome this Evangelical knowledge even the Gospel of Christ labour to understand it and have the efficacy of it wroug●… it upon your hearts 3. Rejoyce in it how do men rejoyce in earthly treasure so should we as the Merchant in the Gospel when he had found the Pearl of Price rejoyced exceedingly so we ought as being made partakers thereof I rejoyced at thy word even as one that had found great spo●…ls saith David so should we rejoyce alwaies in this treasure 'T is said of those that sate under Iohn Baptists Ministry that they rejoyced but for a while and that is the condition and misery of many The City of Samaria when they had received the Gospel 't is said they had great joy Act. 8. 9.