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Heavenly merchandiseHeavenly merchandize
Heavenly merchandise; or The purchasing of truth recommended and the selling of it dissuaded; as it was delivered in several sermons upon Prov. 23. 23. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Three lines of Scripture text]Heavenly merchandize; or The purchasing of truth recommended and the selling of it disswaded; as it was delivered in several sermons upon Prov. 23. 23. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Three lines of Scripture text]
printed by Samuel Green, 1686
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4. It will furnish you with sufficient supply in all your adversity. As it will be a portion which you can never be robbed of, so it will be a full and satisfying portion when you are ⟨p. 78⟩stripped of every other thing: It will (in the absence of them) be to you instead of father and mother, wife and children, houses and lands, gold and silver, food and raiment, health and strength; these may all of them be taken away from you, but. Truth never can: David prefers it to great spoil, Psal. 119. 162: This Truth contains in it great and precious promises, with which, he that hath them may live well enough upon a rock; here is laid up that hidden manna, which will satisfy your hungry souls in the desert; this is it which will give you your fill in the time of famine, that will deliver you from all fear of evil, when there is nothing else but evil encompassing you round about, and will carry you secure through a land of drought.
4. It will furnish you with sufficient supply in all your adversity. As it will be a portion which you can never be robbed of, so it will be a full and satisfying portion when you are ⟨p. 78⟩stript of every other thing: It will (in the absence of them) be to you instead of father and mother, wife and children, houses and lands, gold and silver, food and raiment, health and strength; these may all of them be taken away from you, but. Truth never can: David prefers it to great spoil, Psal. 119. 162: This Truth contains in it great and precious promises, with which, he that hath them may live well enough upon a rock; here is laid up that hidden manna, which will satisfy your hungry souls in the desert; this is it which will give you your fill in the time of famine, that will deliver you from all fear of evil, when there is nothing else but evil encompassing you round about, and will carry you secure through a land of drought.