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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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1. By this neglect you put an high affront upon the God of Truth: God accounts that he hath made you the greatest and most liberal offers that can be, when he hath set before you his Gospel▪ and published the great Truths of Salvation in your hearing, together with the inviting you to come and get them for your own; for you therefore after all this to neglect them, and have no regard to them, is a carriage most contemptuous, ⟨p. 40⟩and argues that you look upon them as not worth the seeking after: and God looks upon himself to be set at naught by these carriages, and hence you must needs thus irritate his anger, and engage him against you, and how woeful a folly is that?
1. By this neglect you put an high affront upon the God of Truth: God accounts that he hath made you the greatest and most liberal offers that can be, when he hath set before you his Gospel▪ and published the great Truths of Salvation in your hearing, together with the inviting you to come and get them for your own; for you therefore after all this to neglect them, and have no regard to them, is a carriage most contemptuous, ⟨p. 40⟩and argues that you look upon them as not worth the seeking after: and God looks upon himself to be set at naught by these carriages, and hence you must needs thus irritate his anger, and engage him against you, and how woful a folly is that?
2. If you neglect to buy the Truth now, shortly it will not be to be bought; not only will the price rise, as there is abundant likelihood that it will, if Truths enemies may obtain their will; and how far God may permit it thus to be, to make those who have thus slighted it, to see and feel their own foolishness, I cannot tell: but the market will in a little time be quite over with you; see