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fashions much depend on fancy; therefore fomera ther choose to deal in ftable commodities, that are of common conftant ofe and fervice; but as to this Cafe, there is no fhadow of Plea against Trading with Chrifl for in all the Generations of the Church His Sacred Ordinances are the fame, & Chrift Him felf is the fame, unchanged yefterday and to day, & for ever; the very fame things, that the Patriarchs Prophets and Apoftles, had need of and did Trade in, we have need of the fame, and bave access to Bargain for the fame as well as they, and fo will al Chriftians to the Worlds end,

3.Some changetheir Trade because of the Mean nefs of it, which makes them liable to difrefpe&t,bu our Spiritual Merchant bath nothing to object bere both conudering the things he deals in, Gold, Ru bies. Pearls, yea a Crown, a Kingdom, ie, Hea venly Treafures, and alfe confidering with whom he doth Trade, the High and Lofty One who inha bits Eternity, the Prince of the Kings of the Earth the King of Kings.

4 Some change their Trade in profpect of mor Gain in another, but furely there is no Trade fo ad vantagious as Trading with Chrift, though ther were no more to verifie this but our Text, & wha we have been difcourfing from it; but it feems Pa has been fully perfwaded of this, when be tells us what things wete Gain to me those I counted Lol for Chrift, yea doubtless and I count all things Lo and Dung, that I may win Chriff, Phil. 3. 7, 8,

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