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The hidden treasure opened in tvvo sermons preached by Zachary Catlin minister of Gods word at Thurstone in Suffolke: upon Matthevv 13. 44.
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Catlin, Zachary.
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Earth c. but lay up for your selves Treasures in Heaven c. that is make sure in this life of grace for glory Vse 2 Secondly this lets us see the rich estate of a true beleever a sound Christian a faithfull subject of Christs Kingdome he hath a rich Treasure See the rich estate of Christs Subiect He hath faith more precious then gold he hath Christ the perfect Gaine he hath God the fountaine of all good to be his God bound to him by fatherly love by promise by covenant by oath never to faile him nor forsake him Heb. 3.5 but to provide for him in all his wants to protect him in all dangers and finally to possesse him of a Crowne and Kingdome incorruptible Poore Christians why envy ye the outward prosperity of carnall worldlings who have their portion in this Life Psa 17.14 whose belly God hath filled with his hidden Treasures saith the Psalmist meaning the hidden treasures of the earth which they are stripped of at death like that rich foole Luke 12. Why droope your spirits under outward want and pressures David could say The Lord is my portion I have goodly heritage Psal 16.5 6. Ps 23.1 Ps 16.5 6. And againe The Lord is my shepheard I shall want nothing And Paul could say of himselfe and Timothy We are as poore yet making many rich 2. Cor. 6.10 as having nothing yet possessing all things How can he want any thing which tends to true happinesse that is at the Well head All things are possible to him that beleeveth Mar. 9.23 saith our Saviour Et habet omnia qui habet habentem omnia saith a Father he hath all things at least in some sort that hath him that hath all things Saint Paul sweetly All things are yours 1 Cor. 3.22 23. and you Christs and Christ Gods God and Christ are yours and so all things are yours things present and things to come O beloved comfort your selves and one another with these words Know your happinesse you are Lord Treasurers you have the Kingdome of heaven the true Treasure The third circumstance The Place But to come to the third circumstance of the place or situation Quae regio in terris In what place is this Treasure to be found our Saviour tels vs In a Field In a Field And that Field is no other but the Word of God which is compared to a greene pasture Psal 23.2 but in this place to a Field and that for three Reasons Ager est Euangelium saith Calvia Praedicatio verbâ— saith Musc Scriptura Ierom. Hugo Reason 1 First Propter laborem for the labour In gardens and orchards is pleasure and recreation in houses and chambers is eating and drinking and amorous delights but Ager ab agendo in the field is labour and toyle Ibi foditur ibi aratur ibi sudatur there men dig and plow and harrow and sweat and toyle Ager est Scriptura saith Hugo quia agendo laborando acquiritur scientia For the labor the word is compared to a field because by labour and industry we attaine to heavenly knowledge Reason 2 Secondly Propter sterilitatem for the barrennesse of it in the conceit of carnall men For as Treasures saith Iunius are not found in rich pastures and From the barrennes and plainnes fruitfull medowes but in sterile and barren grounds so heavenly wisedome is not found in the wittie devices of Poets or subtill and profound Speculations of Philosophers but in the plaine and simple word of God Reason 3 Thirdly Propter amplitudinem for the largenesse I have seene an end of all perfection saith David For the largenesse Ps 119.96 but thy Law is exceeding broad I have seene the bounds of Townes of Kingdomes and of Countryes yea the Sea and Land hath bounds and borders but thy Word is exceeding broad For it teacheth the whole Will of God and the whole duty of Man the beginning of All things in the Creation and the end of All in the dissolution of the world the right knowledge both of God and of our selves of the mercy of God reaching as high as the highest heavens of his justice reaching downe to the nethermost Hell In a word 2 Tim. 3 17.1◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is able to make the man of God perfit and absolute and to make us all wise unto salvation Aâ—oro plenitudinem Scripturae saith Tertullian I admire the largenesse and fulnesse of the Scripture Let twenty able Divines preach on this one verse yet twenty more may come after them and twenty more after them and still find a living veine of exquisite matter A large field indeed wherein long-lived Methuselah may walke all his life and yet not find out the dimensions of this field O the depth of the wisedome and knowledge of God! Rom. 11.33 how unsearchable are his judgements and his wayes past finding out Doctr. Note we then that in the Field of the Word the Treasure of Gods Kingdome is to be found By his Word the Lord is wont to worke Grace in vs and so to prepare us unto Glory For this cause is the Word in Scriptures called The Word of Grace Act. 20.32 The Word of eternall Life Ioh. 6.68 Act. 20.32 Jo. 60.68 and that we may see the correspondency of Scripture with Scripture The word of the Kingdome Mat. 13.19 in 19. verse of this chapter because in it the Kingdome is to be found Is 53.1 1. Cor. 1.18 In a word It is the Arme of God Is 53.1 and the power of God to salvation 1. Cor 1 18. Vse O then Beloved that all we that desire to finde this Treasure would delight to walk in this Field Other bookes and other words have their use but as David said of Golias sword so say I of the Word of God 1. Sam. 21.9 There is none to that for it hath pleased God by the foolishnesse of preaching to save them that beleeve 1. Cor. 1.21 As for them that despise the Word of God read and preached and delight to walke elsewhere as in wanton play-bookes poeticall fables philosophicall discourses well compiled Historyes politicke Lawes or Statutes eyther they seeke not grace and glory or at least they seeke them where they are not like to finde them and like the Sadducees They erre not knowing the Scriptures Mat. 22.29 But beloved remember ye that saying of David that the man is blessed that hath not walked in the way of sinners Ps 1.1 2. but his delight is in the Law of the Lord and therein doth he meditate day and night I say to you as Booz to Ruth Ruth 2.8 Goe not to gleane in an other field neyther goe from hence but abide ye here Walke in this field more or lesse every day especially on the Sabbath day and meditate herein day and night When many revolted and went backe from Christ he turning to his Disciples