Certain sermons, first preached, and after published at several times, by M. Thomas Gataker…Certaine sermons, first preached, and after published at severall times, by M. Thomas Gataker…

Question. Without seeking then, these things are not to be expected. But are they worth the seeking? may some man say.¹ There are indeed some^h toilsome toys, hard to come by, but of no use or worth when a man hath them: like an Olive, or a Date-stone, hard to crack the one, and to cleave the other, but nothing or nothing worth ought, when ⟨p. 32⟩it is cracked or cloven, within either: And the veryⁱ wealth, yea and the^k learning too of many consisteth much in such.

Question. Without seeking then, these things are not to be expected. But are they worth the seeking? may some man say.¹ There are indeed some^h toylsome toyes, hard to come by, but of no use or worth when a man hath them: like an Olive, or a Date-stone, hard to crack the one, and to cleave the other, but nothing or nothing worth ought, when ⟨p. 32⟩it is crackt or cloven, within either: And the veryⁱ wealth, yea and the^k learning too of many consisteth much in such.

1. 1Propter saporis dulcedinem, qui gustatus magis excitat appetitum, Bern. de Temp. Manducant & bibunt, quia inveniunt; & quia esuriunt & sitiunt, adhuc quaerunt. Nam & inveniendus quaeritur, & quaerendus indenitur, qui & quaeritur ut inveniatur dulcius, & invenitur, ut quaeratur avidiut, Aug. de Trinit. l. 15. c. 2. Sic ergò queramus tanquam inventuri, & sic inveniamus tanquam quaesituti: quia Sirac. 18.6. ibid. l. 9. c. 1. Videantur & Ambros. epist. 11. Gregor. in Evang. hom. 36. Bern de Dilig. Deo, c. 1. & epist. 2. & 341. & de Divers. 38.