Ah mifer quantos tibi risus iße i.e. Fond wretch why touch'd and tickl'd fo When time bath clos'd and shut thine eyes, A third precious Jewel is inward peace & trans quillity of mind, which Is%. 26. 3. is called a perfe peace, and a peace of God that paffeth all understan ding, Phil, 4. 7. when afflictions and perfecutions abound, when the world is turned upûde down,& wars rage to the ends of the earth, yet this peace may poffefs the reins of a Believer, and in flormie days he may have his balcyon days, and nothing but calm fair weather betwixt God and his Soul, Pfal 46 2.3.4. This peace and joy fpoken of being much of a kind, the Conditions of Sale may be tendered at once. I, Cendit. Ye muft contemn the peace and joy of the world, that the joy and peace of God may have the preference in your choice & affections, ye mult fell off & abandon the one,if ye would bay the other 2. Condit. You must be heart-forrow full for your fins,that have marred and obftructed fpiritual peace and joy to this day; it will cost you many a tear.ma ny a figh and groan ere ye obtain the joy of Geds falvation, Pl,126.5. it is they who fow in tears,that reap in joy, and orch Denitents the joy and peace of Mid and favourie. 3. Condit 3. Condit. Ye muft break off your covenant of peace with your lufts and idols,and ceafe to rejoice in doing evil; can you have peace while ye rebel against your Soveraign? I bere is no peace to the wicked, faith my God, lía, 57 21.neither can ye enjoy the joy of the Lord, while ye delight in the thing in which the Lord delighteth not, sa. 65. 12, 13, 14. 4. Condit, Ye muft treat and tranfact with God in Chrift for reconciliation and peace, & upon the close of this Bargain inexpreffible joy will furelie follow, Rom, 5, 1, 2 We have peace with God through Chrift, by whom we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. And therefore Chrift is called our peace and reconciliation, Epb, 2 13.to 17. 5. Condit, Ye muft lead a holy and religious life; for as the réfentment of a wicked vitious life, breaks our peace and banishes our joy, fo the reflection of a vertuous good life, creats us peace and mightilie Increases our joy; bence when a pious man takes a view of his diary, to examine his actions, and finds that advancement in grace and godliness hath the over-ballance, O what peace and ferenity of foul! O what exultations of joy! do readily follow upon this his observation, even fuch sweet experiences as he would not exchange for all the pleafares of the world. This is our rejoicing (faith the Apoftle, 2 Cor, 2, 12. The tefimony of our confciences, that in godly fincerity we have had our converfation in the world: See alfo Ifa. 32 17. A fourth Pearl, is, our Lord Jefus, that precious Pearl of Heaven, Who is virtually, all-fufficiently. Jually all the joys, all the peace, & conten all the riches in heaven & earth, O Sirs, if you bu and purchase Him, ye purcbafe at once the fulne of all in all, yea He is that alone Pearl of great pric which ye ought to buy at the rate of all ye bave Matth. 13.45,46, and furelie all that know H worth and believe on Him will do fo, for to the that believe He is precious, 1 Pet, 2.7. SECTION XI, A fixth fort of Heavens Wares expofed to Sale, Sixthly, What will ye buy? will ye buy a fuit Armour, herein also can this our Merchant for nish you He hath the Magazine of Heavens Ar tillerie at His difpofal, & can fit you to purpose. finner, art thou fentible of thy deadly dangers, do thou not perceive Legions of enemies? within thee without thee, and round about thee; art thou no daily engaged in fpiritual,skirmishes that alarm and force thee to fight? furelie if thou hast true peace with God, thou haft first had warfare with the De vil; if thou haft peace with thy own Confcience, it bath followed upon the back of a fharp cool with thy corruptions; for no fooner are we feriously dif posed to caft off alledgeance to Satan and our flesh, or to enter into a League with King JESUS, but the powers of hell will be on our copp, and all the Mic litia of the flesh will take arms and fill the field; and in this cate (except then minds to be a Volunteer captive and flave) thou canst not choose but find a Hecellity of relittance, & for refifting to purpofe, a neceffity neceffity of Heaven, armour & alfistance. Therefore Ofeble armless finner, come to Chrift, and buy a Suit of Armour. of feveral pieces of Armour that Chrift has to Sell, and Sinners have need to buy. •YE I. E have need of the Helmet of Salvation, a frock on the head if any thing deep, or a throft at the heart are the moft mortal wounds, fo that if the head and the heart be well fenced, there is not so great hazard of the reft of the body. Now I fay, this piece of Armour is for covering the head in the day of Battle, that neither Satans darts nor daggers may pick upon your Pates, and therefore it is called the Helmet of Salvation, Eph. 6. 17. as if it were falvation enough to keep the head fafe;now what this Helmet is, the Apoftle tells us, Theff.5. 8. and for an helmet the hope of falvation;fo that, finner,leaft thou be attacqued with the heavy blows of thine enemies, get on thy helmet of hope,trufting in the Lord, and thou shalt find this piece fo far proof, that none of thefe blows fhall hitt thee, or if perhaps they hitt thee, yet they fhall not hurt thee, becaufe of the prefent help of the God of thy hope, who will either ward them off, or break their force that they go not deep. 2. Ye have need of a Breaf plates as we faid before the bead & the heart are chiefly to be guarded, but of these two more principallie the heart; for a man may get fame cutts in the head which may be healed again, but a wound at the heart fcorns th help of Art,& is irrecoverable; hence it is wort remark that i The 8, where there is but one fing piece ordered for the head, there are two appoint ed for the heart, put on the breaf. plate of faith an love, and for an helmet the hope of falvation, yea w may lay the fame Apoftle adds a third, Eph.6.14 having on the breafe plate of righteoufeefs. O Sirs, fe to guard your hearts well; fays the wifeman, keep your heart with all keeping, Prov. 4. 23. i. e. Y cannot keep it enough it is in fo great hazard, for i once Satan gain the trong hold of the heart, hehat fealed the caftle, he hath gained the city, he hat win the field. 3. Ye have need of the Girdle of Truth, that y may be well buckeled against the pernicious ene mies of truth, who are ready by the force of carna reafonings to impofe upon you darkness for light,& errour for truth, fo that if it were poffible they would deceive the very Ele&; therefore endeavou to have a clear scheme and fyfteme of the most ne ceffary fundamental truths of the Gospel digested in your minds, that ye may the more easily difcer contrare errours & the more folidly confate them and ye may also be able to give a reafon of the hop that is in you when clearly called thereunto, 4. Ye have need of the Sword of the Spirit,a wea pon fit and ufefull both for defence and offence, and which hath this advantage, is easily portable now what this is, the Apoftle explains, Eph. 6. 17. An the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God, where by is recommended to us a due care to be well ver fed in the Scriptures, as an univerfal fortification a baint all evils occurrent; O what power is in the Wer |