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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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2. The gratification of some fleshly lust; the truth is an enemy to all these; and many ⟨p. 29⟩times it is so, that men cannot hold the Truth in a conscientious profession of it, but this will prevent the aims, and curb in the reachings of carnal concupiscence: sometimes Covetousness craves after the world, and its desires are so large and boundless, that they cannot be kept pace withal, except a man remit some part of the Truth which concerns honesty, and some rules of piety too, or Religious Duties; and now if he will get the world, he must sell these Truths, so did Demos, 2 Tim. 4. 10. sometimes a mans ambition reacheth after preferment, and so much of honour and command, as may be procured in a way of truth, will not content him: if he will rise in the worlds favour, and climb to its dignities, he must let go some of the Truths of his profession, or dissemble them, and not openly own them, nay, possibly (as the times may be) he must renounce, and take upon him the contrary profession: and the weak mind of man is often woefully exposed by such Temptations, as are so suited to his carnal inclinations:
2. The gratification of some fleshly lust; the truth is an enemy to all these; and many ⟨p. 29⟩times it is so, that men cannot hold the Truth in a consciencious profession of it, but this will prevent the aims, and curb in the reachings of carnal concupiscence: sometimes Covetousness craves after the world, and its desires are so large and boundless, that they cannot be kept pace withal, except a man remit some part of the Truth which concerns honesty, and some rules of piety too, or Religious Duties; and now if he will get the world, he must sell these Truths, so did Dem•s, 2 Tim. 4. 10. sometimes a mans ambition reacheth after preferment, and so much of honour and command, as may be procured in a way of truth, will not content him: if he will rise in the worlds favour, and climb to its dignities, he must let go some of the Truths of his profession, or dissemble them, and not openly own them, nay, possibly (as the times may be) he must renounce, and take upon him the contrary profession: and the weak mind of man is often wofully exposed by such Temptations, as are so suited to his carnal inclinations: