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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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of a professing People, have been highly provoking to the great God, whose Name hath been dishonoured, and ways evil spoken of by reason of these things: but yet I am fully persuaded, that the root of all these, and that which God hath principally to article against us for, is this, That the Truth hath been a drug among us; the Gospel of Truth hath been woefully contemned: There hath been a long day ⟨p. 144⟩wherein we have had the free enjoyment of it, but hath not the Lord been all day long stretching out his hand to a gain saying and disobedient people! there have been indeed a great many bogglers, but a few buyers; many that have made fair offers as if they would have done something this way, but when it came to the upshot, they have fallen off again; and may not God say unto us as Christ did in a like case to those Jews, Mat. 21. 43. The Kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a Nation bringing forth the Fruits thereof. And let me say, God seems to be now in greater haste than ordinary, let us be the more wary of putting him upon it.
of a professing People, have been highly provoking to the great God, whose Name hath been dishonoured, and wayes evil spoken of by reason of these things: but yet I am fully perswaded, that the root of all these, and that which God hath principally to article against us for, is this, That the Truth hath been a drug among us; the Gospel of Truth hath been wofully contemned: There hath been a long day ⟨p. 144⟩wherein we have had the free enjoyment of it, but hath not the Lord been all day long stretching out his hand to a gain saying and disobedient people! there have been indeed a great many boglers, but a few buyers; many that have made fair offers as if they would have done something this way, but when it came to the upshot, they have fallen off again; and may not God say unto us as Christ did in a like case to those Jews, Mat. 21. 43. The Kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a Nation bringing forth the Fruits thereof. And let me say, God seems to be now in greater haste than ordinary, let us be the more wary of putting him upon it.