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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.

2. That God, who alone hath the Truth to sell, and can only make a sure conveyance of it to us, hath set a stated market price upon it: God doth not first make the offers of it, to draw men in, and afterwards when they are engaged, come and tell them how much they must give for it; but he deals openly with them, and as he hath determinant ⟨p. 121⟩within himself what it shall certainly cost every one that hath it, so in the sending it out in Gospel Tenders, he hath fairly written the price upon it, so that every one may be able to read it, Prov. 2. begin. If thou criest after knowledge, &c. if thou searchest her as Silver, &c.

2. That God, who alone hath the Truth to sell, and can only make a sure conveyance of it to us, hath set a stated marketprice upon it: God doth not first make the offers of it, to draw men in, and afterwards when they are engaged, come and tell them how much they must give for it; but he deals openly with them, and as he hath determinant ⟨p. 121⟩within himself what it shall certainly cost every one that hath it, so in the sending it out in Gospel Tenders, he hath fairly written the price upon it, so that every one may be able to read it,