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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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3. In a word, that I may sum up all in one; it will fulfil for you all the promised good▪ and give you the full and everlasting possession of it. This Truth is the security of the promise, it is the first fruit of the purchase, it is the earnest of the Inheritance, and therefore in it he that buys it may find all the good that is to be had in the Kingdom of Glory, secured to him: and who can tell the vastness of the store, the infiniteness of the treasure that is laid up there? if that saying of the Apostle, 1 Cor. 2. 9. Eye hath not seen, ⟨p. 83⟩&c. may truly be applied to those things which the people of God have in hand, which are but the sips and foretasts, but the essays and earnests of glory, what tongue then can express, or heart conceive, what are those reserves in the Covenant, which are kept for the entertainment of those happy souls afterward, who have had so much wisdom here as to sell all and Buy the Truth? Doubtless those that are happifyed with the Fruition of these ineffable things, can after a more ravishing manner use the words of the Queen of Sheba, and say; that they had (in the Country of their former abode) heard glorious things reported of those mansions of delight, and high happiness which was reserved for them, yea so much as the credit whereof induced them to adventure their all upon the hopes of enjoying it; but that the one half was not told them: Nor indeed are the narrow souls of the children of men capable of making room enough to entertain the apprehension of these things, so long as they are straitened in a body of frail flesh; & now, what do you say to all this? will you blow upon the Truth still? will you yet despise it? or will you not rather say, is this the excellent profit of buying the Truth, what ⟨p. 84⟩shall we do then that we may become owners of it.
3. In a word, that I may summe up all in one; it will fulfill for you all the promised good▪ and give you the full and everlasting possession of it. This Truth is the security of the promise, it is the first fruit of the purchase, it is the earnest of the Inheritance, and therefore in it he that buys it may find all the good that is to be had in the Kingdom of Glory, secured to him: and who can tell the vastness of the store, the infiniteness of the treasure that is laid up there? if that saying of the Apostle,