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A15576	The best merchandise or, A cleare discovery of the evident difference, and admirable advantage, betweene our traffike with God, for the true treasure; and with men, for temporall commodity VVherein is shevved that our spirituall trading is both free from all the evill, & full of all the good, which is incident to civill commerce; yea, that it overfloweth with divers excellent prerogatives, which the affayres of the earth cannot yeelde. Preached at Middleburgh in Zeelandt, immediately before the remoovall, of the famous fellowship of Merchant Adventurers of England, from thence, vnto Delft, in Hollandt. And now published, and dedicated, to the honour and vse, of that whole society, there, or other where, residing. By Iohn VVing, a true harted wellwiller, to their temporall, and eternall good, with God and men.	Wing, John, of Flushing, Zealand.	1622 (1622)	STC 25843; ESTC S120117	86,198	146

THE BEST MERCHANDISE OR A CLEARE DISCOVERY OF The evident difference and admirable advantage betweene our traffike with God for the true treasure and with men for temporall commodity VVHEREIN IS SHEVVED That our spirituall trading is both free from all the evill full of all the good which is incident to civill commerce yea that it overfloweth with divers excellent prerogatives which the affayres of the earth cannot yeelde Preached at Middleburgh in Zeelandt immediately before the remoovall of the famous fellowship of Merchant Adventurers of England from thence vnto Delft in Hollandt And now published and dedicated to the honour and vse of that whole society there or other where residing By IOHN VVING a true harted well willer to their temporall and eternall good with God and men Pro. 23.23 Buy the truth but sell it not AT FLVSHING Printed by Martin Abraham vander Nolck dwelling at the signe of the Printing house 1622. SOCIETAS ADVENTVRARIA Ana-gramma RE-RATA VIVIS DEO SANCTA What er'e can be concluded from a NAME Yours doth include all happines and fame Thus spel'd thus anagram'd it boade's your Fate Then which there cannot be a happier State With MEN t' enjoy your reconfirmed GLORIE And with your GOD to be reputed HOLIE What can I wish but THESE withall increase And after THESE those joyes that never cease TO THE Right Worshipfull my worthy freinds Master EDVVARD BENNET Deputy the Assistance and Generality of the famous Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers of England resident at Delft in Hollandt IOHN WING wisheth all Temporall Spirituall and Eternall happines here and in heaven I Am bolde beloved and much respected in the Lord to send this demonstration of my dearest affection after you not that that I account it any competent recompence but that you will as I hope receive it as some greatfull remembrance of those your greater favours which you have soe kindely communicated vnto me Some taste hereof you had while I was soe happy as to speake now and then in your hearing and because that was but a taste yet well savoured of such as heard the same I could not deny or discourage the Christian desire of any who were affected to feede more fully therevpon It was the last message that I delivered among you from God and therefore inasmuch as you were vpon your jmmediate remoovall to attayne a more happy course of commerce with men I thought it my part and duty therein to doe my best for the furtherance of your most happy traffike with the Lord that you might if by 〈◊〉 possibility I might helpe be prosperous both in heaven and earth at once and grow abundantly rich in body temporally and in soule and body eternally together And God who is Lord over all and rich vnto all grant that you may enjoy this double blessednes to the greatest prayse of his most glorious name and the everlasting peace and welfare of your owne harts and states for ever before him To his grace and loue I commend you all for ever and to you all and to your loue I commend this my poore endeavour nothing doubting yet earnestly desiring your kinde acceptance of the same from him who resolveth ever to remayne Yours in all vnfayned affection for good IOHN WING From my house in Flushing March 26. 1622. The summe of the Sermons God who compare 's his kingdome to your trade VVould have you Merchants like his kingdome made VVhereto sincerely if you doe endeavour Both rich and blessed shall you be for ever For why all things most sweetely doe combyne To rayse rare proffit by Commerce divine Jt standeth wholy of advantages There is no feare of losse or damages Adventures Sales Exchanges Bartars Debts All are secure all gainfull nothing lett 's Th' Adventure 's nothing it 's by th' almighty borne Who for your safety by himself hath sworne That maugre sin and all the devills in hell Your soules estate for ever shal be well Your Sales are happy of your sin that 's naught And that 〈◊〉 Bartar for the grace Christ bought And soe you make most rich Returnes and To giue the best for worst God doth 〈◊〉 place The Exchange is gainfull 〈…〉 Lesse bringeth more 〈…〉 The more 〈…〉 occasion we deliver The more we doe receive from this free giver Noe desperate Debts or Bankrupts in this trade God is the Credditour Christ Surety made And both have bound themselues to pay to us The principall with gracious over plus Nor neede you doubt Bad Servants should deceive You lay out all your self and all receive There is no trusting other agents here Each man his owne eternall state shall beare And if to th' reckoning day we wisely looke When our great Master will peruse his booke Th' account will rise most happy to our share That sweetest voyce with gladsome harts we heare Come faithfull servant take your masters ioy Posesse eternall blisse without anoy Lo● here is heaven for earth for trash true tr●●sure For some few cares and paynes ioy without measure Glory for greife eternity for ages For litle worke immortall endles wages My soule doth wish you were such Merchants all That he who to himself his owne will call May take you all vnto that blisse aboue you Next unto Him and his Vice-roy J loue you The methode of the whole matter The Excellency of the best merchandise doth appeare in the consideration of 3. things FIRST that it is free from all the evills of civill trade there being in it No Adventure No Bad Debts No Bad Servant SECONDLY that it is 〈…〉 of all the good that civill trade hath for therin we haue ever Good Sales Best Bartars Exellent Exchange THIRDLY that it overfloweth with much more good then is to be found in mans commerce because All our busines is in one place with one party for one commodity All is given vs which we deale for All we deale for is exceeding good without any evill Our greatest good commeth when we have done tradeing The best Merchandise OR Tradeing for the true Treasure WHEREIN The excellent difference and admirable advantage that is betweene spirituall and temporall traffique is clearely layd open and discovered In ceartaine Sermons on Pro. 3.14.15 14. For the merchandise therof is better then the merchandise of silver and the gayne therof it better then fine golde 15. She is more precious then rubies and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared to her IT readily appeareth to every vnderstanding reader that these words doe contayne an evident reason of that which is avouched in those that goe next before them in the 13. verse In which verse we heare the spirit of God magnifying and that with his owne mouth that cannot lye the most happy blessednes and welbeing of that man who hath attayned true wisdome and vnderstanding Happy or blessed is the man that findeth wisdome and the man that getteth vnderstanding Now what is propounded in those words is proued in these

perfection without Christ made him not free from mutability we by Christ are jmmatable notwithstanding all our jmperfections Soe now we trade vpon better that is vpon surer tearmes then he did we cannot be soe jnnocent of evill but we are more absolute in good then he was he no sooner began to deale with God but he broke straight we are secured from the first instant of our begining that we shall never fimally fayle Thus we see this is the first priveledg of the first sort wich your merchandese hath Gods hath not ADVENTVRES are EVILS and therefore they are not incident to this trade though to yours they be But this is but the first and the beginning of the benefit of this trade let vs looke further for more encouragement to this celestiall commerce and the further we goe the more good shall we still be sure to see Set we then towards a second and that is this That as there is no hassarde in this heavenly trade Prive ∣ ledg 2 but all come's safe to hand soe neither is it possible to make a bad debt in all that we deale for Noe BAD DEBTS can be made in this busines nay no debts can be made which are not exceeding good yea better then all the ready money in the worlde if it were all aue to one man And this help 's on the happines of the former for it all should come well arive safely and we should when it hath passed all sea dangers endanger it our selues in selling it to vntrusty buyers who should not pay currantly where were the comfort of the former safety where were the future benefit of the commodity But if a man have it in sure posession and sell it to such as will make sure payment then is he happy and hath his harts desire And here it is soe and it cannot be otherwise for why who doe we trust in all we trade for even HE alone is trusted whose payment cannot be mistrusted we trust none but GOD to whome we should be guilty of fearfull blaspemy if we should harbour in our harts one jealous or suspitious thought of inconstancy he being one whose compassions cannot faile Lam. 3.22 None but the Lord is our Debter in the managing of this busines he who is rich in mercy Lord over all rich vnto all able enough to pay and as willing as he is able to give vs content nay beyond that more then we can aske nay beyond that too more then we can receine We heard what alsufficiens security he hath given vs by himself by his son by his spirit by his word by his oath by all more then all that we could demaunde or desire to satisfy vs. We all know there can be no bad debt if the debtor be good how then is there a possibility of any to be founde here seing we trust nothing vpō any but vpon him vpon whome we say we put all our trust who although he by not be any right that we can clayme or challeagne a debtor to any man as owing any thing by due to his creature but contrariwise that all the world are debtors to him and owe him infinite dues which are simply vnpayable on our part vnto him if he should aske his owne Yet it pleaseth him to make himself and to manifest himself to be our debtor and of his owne mere grace and love he wil be see assuring vs that we shall be payd to the full yea that with vnspeakeable overplus and advantage He is content it should be sayd we lend vnto him Pr. 16.17 He that is mercifull to the poore lendeth vnto the Lord and that he wil be our paymaster and the Lord shall repay vnto him whatsoever he layeth out And the payment he make's the satisfaction and contentment he gives is such and soe excellent as would if we well vnderstood it make vs ever more desire to have him more and more in our debt happy is that man that hath or can have most debts standing out with God the more the better he that is deope●● in is vndoubtedly most happy and that for one speciall and remarkeable reason worthy of everlasting remembrance and observation and that is this That to whome soever he once makes payment Note those men are made for ever They shall never neede to trade more who once are satisfyed by this debtor and the debt is as sure as himself is who is the debtor it is not more ceartaine that he is in heaven then that all to whome he makes himself judebead shall receive plenary and perfect payment beyond all that can be either demanded desired or received his satisfaction is soe super abundant that we are not capable of the fullnes thereof All bad debts come by trusting the world or the Divell or our selves either overmuch or at all for not one of them is worthy of any considence they are all three soe farre from infallibylity that they who most depend vpon them shall finde nothing but vanity deceit in them But he that relyeth vpon the living Lord as sure as the Lord line 's that man shal be satisfied There Note are few men to whome he is debtor but he paye's them double Something they have in hand they are presently payd in part even in this world and in such a time as he knowe's may doe them most good and with such either jnward or outward comforts or it may be some of both sorts as they are most fit to receine and shal be most happy to haue Something is still resting to them and remayneth to be received in heaven and that is the infinite glory blisse and felicity which Abraham Isaac and Iacob the blessed Patriarchs Prophets and Apostles and those jnnumerable spirits of just and perfect men doe enjoy with all whome we shall fit downe in that kindome and beholde the Lord of life and king of glory face to face and partake those incomprehensible happinesses which are reserved for vs with them there The least the Lord doth ronder to vs even of these baser blessings is more satisfaction then we have or can have right vnto but the best whether it be of grace or of glory doth exceede not only our right but even our thought also And hence it is that we are with soe good reason soe often invited and incited by the holy Ghost to Trust in the Lord yea to trust perfectly in him to cast all our cares vpon him to commit both our wayes and our selves to him and we are also tolde that it is better to trust him then princes and yet we would thinke our debt good and our money sure if a Prince were to be our paymaster well saith David it is better to trust in the Lord them in Princes he speake's it twise that we may know he is well advised in it and well assured of it and to harten vs here vnto he vndertake's we shall never be confounded or a

cup of her fornications But of these merchants of God it shal be sayd yea it is already sayd jrrevocably recorded too that they shal be kings in heaven every merchant of wisdome shall be called GREAT in the kingdome of heaven and have glory there with the king of kings for ever and ever The Lord Iesus hath made it sure already by his blood it is not more ceartayne that he is dead shamefully for vs then that we shall liue gloriously with his father through him for by his infamy our honour was purchased he dyed miserably to the end we might live blessedly and was content to come much beneath himself that we might be marveilousy exalted by his extreame abasement It is he that hath of his owne goodnes made vs of naturall men gracious merchants and he it is that will make vs Princes of glory after we have beene merchants in grace proclayming vs both to our selves and others by the proper and peculyar prerogatives of his spirit to be heires apparant vnto that kingdome while we are in this body here below and afterward putting vs into the actuall and eternall possession of the same And what a rare royall and surpassing prerogative this is every man may apprehend it is rare for the world cannot match it royall for it dignifyes a man aboue the worlde surpassing for none els can come neere it We were as was sayd happy while we were getting this merchandise by Prayer and Endeavour and such other good meanes as we have specifyed but all this was but the first fruits the beginning and earnest pennyes of our comforts now to come which are full infinite everlasting and incomprehensible for greatnes for goodnes for durablenes and whatsoever els may any way conduce to make a thing inconceivably comfortable both in it self and vnto vs. While we were here we were but driving this trade and during the time wherin we were either selling our corruption or buying sanctification we now and then mett with some adverse and opposite things our graces could not evermore worke kindely because they were many times encumbred and interrupted Satan the world and our owne corruption were often in our way all or some of these did ever annoy vs doing daily their worst to make the streame muddy to embase these excellencyes and to embitter our sweete proceedings in these happy passages But now we shal be out of the divells the world and our owne sins reach all their gunshot shall not come neere vs but we shall for ever enjoy most quietly the fruit of that which we have gotten Christianly Now shall we be enriched and honoured by him by whome we were employed and set on worke now shall we sit with our fellow Merchants in grace and posessors of glory Abraham Isaac and Iacob all the rest of the most blessed Patriarchs Prophets Apostles and whatsoever other Saints doe concure to make vp that numberlesse number of those who are sayd to be an jnnumerable multitude of just and perfect men and with them all and all the residue of the mysticall members of the most sacred body of Christ shall we see the face and enjoy the presence of our lining God our loving father the king of kings and Lord of Lords and we shall beholde him as he is in the perefection of his essence in the glory of all his excellencyes in the mystery of his persons Then and there shall we be in such a state as we cannot now discover it appeareth not what we shal be saith John that is in particuler perfection of that estate of the boundles and vnlimited extent wherof nature and mortality is no way capable There shall we be as kings to raigne with the Lord the king of saints sitting vpon thrones of glory wearing crownes of jmmortality with Iesus the purchaser of these perfections for vs who hath given and granted to all saints to fit vpon his throne as he sitteth vpon his fathers throne What we have gott here shal be wholy taken vp there I meane of those remayning graces that shall abide for faith hope patience zeale and such like graces as had their proper excercise and principall jmployment either vpon present evill or good to come and not yet posessed shall cease but all those graces that goe into glory with vs shal be jmployed in a most glorious manner vpon the most glorious things that are there as our wisdome and knowledg and loue vpon himself his son and spirit those three blessed and distinct persons every of which is God to be blessed for ever not thrice nor a thousand thousand times blessed but infinitly beyond all millions of blessings and blessednes that the created and finite hart of man comprehend in the vttmost jmaginations therof That one moe glorious essence of those three most glorious persons and that Trinall and most sacred subsistence shall then be the only objects of our wisdome to know them fully loue to affect them perfectly joy to delight in them everlastingly These while we were here among mysts of ignorance were mysteries vnto vs and such secrets vnto our clouded vnderstādings as we could not clearely discerne but we had some glymmering light or weake guesse at them such as the man had whose eyes were in part opened that saw men walking like trees which was a seing very grosse and confused New we see saith the apostle through a glasse darkely and know but in part But when we shal be translated from hence to that celestiall state and station then shall we see face to face and know vs we are knowne yea saith another apostle we shall see him the Lord as he is both in the incomprehensible vnity of his nature and inconceivable trinity of the persons the severall excellencyes of the former and their infinite acts the distinct acts of the latter and their divine effects the FATHERS eternall generation of the SON the SONS eternall sonship or filiation of the father and the proceeding of the holy GHOST eternally from the Father and the Son shall the shyne openly vnto vs and soe shall the power the wisdome the merey the justice all that infinite variety of ineffable goodnes whic hath his residence in the glorious nature of that Being of Beings these shall we see with open face yea as we sayd even now face to face the Lord will no more turne his backe-parts to vs but we shall have full sight of all his glory vnto the brightnes wherof the clearest lustre of the sun is but as fogg and darknes our eyes and vnderstanding shal be free from feeble jmpotency and both made absolute in perfect jmmutable jmmortality to beholde him who hath blessed vs with these heavenly things in heaven The shaddowes of these things which we now reade with astonishment in the booke of God we shall then and there receive and feele with vnvtterable ravishment where the Lord is and where we shall for ever be with him in the highest happines