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3. Ask the price, and boggle not at it, but resolve to give it, he that only looks upon a commodity which he hath before him, or it may be speaks something in its commendation, but doth not go so far as to cheapen it, that man hath no intention to buy it: or if he doth make enquiry after the price, and when it is told him, he snuffs at it, and finds fault ⟨p. 120⟩with it, it shows that he hath but a little mind to be at cost for the having it: and here in general, let me leave these things with you as Truths to be believed, viz.

3. Ask the price, and boggle not at it, but resolve to give it, he that only looks upon a commodity which he hath before him, or it may be speaks something in its commendation, but doth not go so far as to cheapen it, that man hath no intention to buy it: or if he doth make enquiry after the price, and when it is told him, he snuffs at it, and finds fault ⟨p. 120⟩with it, it shews that he hath but a little mind to be at cost for the having it: and here in general, let me leave these things with you as Truths to be believed, viz.

1. That if ever you come to be owners of the Truth, it will cost you something; for though it is not to be denied, that every one that hath it, obtains it without money, and without price, yet notwithstanding he that so offers it, tells us withal, that we must buy it, Isa. 45. 1. Come buy without money and without price. Though we have nothing to give for it, that can in any way obscure the freeness of Gods Grace in bestowing of it upon us, as being never able, out of all our store to make up a valuable price for it; yet there is something that we must lay down in order to our being made partakers in it which is (in mens account) money's worth.