A35389:1749
An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of…
An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of Job delivered in XXI lectures at Magnus near the bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of Iob delivered in XXI lectures at Magnus neare the bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by G. Miller for Henry Overton, 1643
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That the best things are hardest to come by. If you will have treasures, you must dig for them; you may have pebble stones, flints, above ground, but treasures lie deep; And in proportion, the better every thing is, the more digging it requireth; And the best things, ought to be most digged for. They that will have the great blessing, must wrestle for it, or the Crown, they must strive for it; We must dig for heavenly hidden treasure, before we have it; And yet both the treasure and the strength to dig for it, are freely given. Fourthly observe, That
That the best things are hardest to come by. If you will have treasures, you must digge for them; you may have pibble stones, flints, above ground, but treasures lie deepe; And in proportion, the better every thing is, the more digging it requireth; And the best things, ought to be most digg'd for. They that will have the great blessing, must wrestle for it, or the Crowne, they must strive for it; We must dig for heavenly hidden treasure, before we have it; And yet both the treasure and the strength to dig for it, are freely given. Fourthly observe, That
Those things which we esteem most, we labour to secure most. It is said that they digged for treasures, and that the treasures were hid. I told you in opening the words, there is a natural hiding of treasure, and an industrious hiding. Take it in the last sense, men that have treasures will labour to preserve them, why? because treasures are much esteemed, and the things we esteem most, we preserve most. In the Hebrew, the word that signifies treasure, signifies the hiding of treasure, or hidden treasure. Among all treasures, spiritual treasures are most hidden; they are so hidden, that they are called mysteries, or secrets? The knowledge of Christ was a hidden treasure for some thousands of years; the Apostle in his time calls it, the mystery which was kept secret since the world began, Rom. 16.25. Again he calls it, the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world, unto our glory, which none of the Princes of this world knew,