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Seventhly, They are compared to gold and silver, For the usefulness and profitableness to all things. Money answereth all things, saith the Wise man, Eccles. 10.19. Many outward comforts in this world may be had for gold and silver; you may have friends, food, raiment. Hence the Heathens made Pluto wealth, a god, because it wrought all things among men, Clausum aur â custodit Jovem. Horace spake of the covetous man, He keeps his god in his chest; And covetousness is called Idolatry, Col. 3.5. Thus gold and silver prevail in the world: And therefore Balaam to express his resolvedness not to curse Israel, said, Though Balaak would give him an house full of gold, yet he would not curse them. But alas, what are these to the truths of Christ? They are profitable for such things, which material gold and silver cannot do. Judas, when tormented in in his conscience foa sin, What could his thirty pieces of silver comfort him? Could that ease his conscience? Give gold and silver to the damned men in hell, will that comfort them? There are many mercies that all the gold and silver in the world cannot help us unto; but now there is no condition, no doubt, no affliction, no want, but the truths of Christ are very profitable unto. The truth of Justification by faith in Christ, Is not that more worth than the gold of Ophir? What precious and powerful operations hath it upon the hearts of the godly?

Seventhly, They are compared to gold and silver, For the usefulnesse and profitablenesse to all things. Money answereth all things, saith the Wiseman, Eccles. 10.19. Many outward comforts in this world may be had for gold and silver; you may have friends, food, raiment. Hence the Heathens made Pluto wealth, a god, because it wrought all things among men, Clausum aur â custodit Jovem. Horace spake of the covetous man, He keeps his god in his chest; And covetousnesse is called Idolatry, Col. 3.5. Thus gold and silver prevail in the world: And therefore Balaam to expresse his resolvednesse not to curse Israel, said, Though Balaak would give him an house full of gold, yet he would not curse them. But alas, what are these to the truths of Christ? They are profi•able for such things, which material gold and silver cannot do. Judas, when tormented in in his conscience foa sinne, What could his thirty pieces of silver comfort him? Could that ease his conscience? Give gold and silver to the damned men in hell, will that comfort them? There are many mercies that all the gold and silver in the world cannot help us unto; but now there is no condition, no doubt, no affliction, no want, but the truths of Christ are very profitable unto. The truth of Justification by faith in Christ, Is not that more worth than the gold of Ophir? What precious and powerfull operations hath it upon the hearts of the godly?