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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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notable saying of the Lord himselfe Act. 16. Isa 65.1 Isa 65.1 I was found of them that sought me not And it is truely affirmed by Hilary Hilary Thesaurum in venisse gratuitum est It is the free grace of God preventing us that any man should find the Treasure for flesh and blood reveales it not c. Mat. 16.17 Matt. 16.17 Vse But yet beloved finding implyes our duty of seeking Yet we must seeke Gods Kingdome and righteousnes Mat. 6.33 Pro. 2.4 It is the expresse precept of our Saviour elsewhere Seek ye first of all the Kingdome of God and his righteousnesse Mat. 6.23 the counsell of Salomon Pro. 2.4 Seeke her that is wisedome or grace as silver search for her as for Hid Treasures Labour we therefore for illumination for conversion for repentance and for faith and take we this for our comfort Motive The Lord will reveale this Treasure unto us he will enlighten our minds and sanctifie our hearts he will let us see our sinnes and withall his mercy in the pardon of them and the way how to get the dominion over them For if he be found of them that seeke him not how much more will hee be found of us if wee seeke him in vprightnesse of heart For so saith our Saviour expresly Matt. 7.7 Seeke and ye shall finde and againe Every one that seeketh findeth Be exhorted therefore in the words of the Prophet To seeke the Lord while he may be found and to call upon him while he is neere Isa 55.6 seeke the Lord in his Temple and the heavenly Treasure in the field of his Word Duty 2 Secondly he rejoyces in his Finding for that is next in order of time and nature He reioyces though not of the words as they lie in the Text. Finding even of an Earthly Treasure bringeth no question great joy especially in this golden age of the world But to finde the pardon of our sins So must we to be assured of the love of God in Christ and that we shall overcome Satan and all our corruptions and finally attaine eternall life this must needs bring Joy unspeakable and glorious as Saint Peter calls it 1. Pet. 1.8 Zacheus found this Treasure and he Rejoyced The Iaylour found this Treasure and he Rejoyced Luk. 19.6 Act. 16.34 Act. 8.39 The Eunuch found this Treasure and he went on his way Rejoycing Act. 8 39. And David professeth of himselfe Psa 119.162 I rejoyced in thy Word as one that findeth great spoyles Indeed all beleevers have not this joy alike Caution Some have it more at their first conversion and lesse after some lesse at first and more after and never any have it at all times alike but with some remission of degree and intermission of feeling But this is a certaine truth that it is to be found more or lesse in all those that finde this Treasure Vse Abandon we therefore my brethren all false joyes of sinne Let this be our chiefest Joy Jer. 9.23 the object onely of griefe and sorrow and all petty joyes of worldly pleasures profits and honours in companion of this Let not the wise man saith the Lord glory in his wisedome nor the strong man in his might nor the rich man in his riches that is to say comparatively but let him that glorieth glory in this Luk. 10.20 that he knoweth me to be the Lord. Rejoyce not in this saith our Saviour that the spirits or divels be subdued unto you but rather that your Names are written in Heaven that you are enrolled as Subjects into this Kingdome And in this rejoyce and spare not the true ground of sound comfort is in the grace and favour of God manifested to us in our true conversion I wonder they that want it can be so merry and that those that have it can be so sad Rev. 3.17 If we have found our selves heretofore most miserable poore and naked out of Gods favour in the cords of sinne in the jawes of Satan every moment in the danger of hell fire and now by the mercy of God finde our selves delivered from these miseries and enstated in a Kingdome and a Treasure how can we possibly be sad Let us with David checke our selves for our lumpish pensivenes Why art thou thus cast downe O my soule Psal 43.5 and why art thou thus disquieted within me and make conscience of the Apostles earnest charge Rejoyce in the Lo d evermore Phil. 4.4 and againe I say Rejoyce for the fruit of the Spirit is joy and peace and the Kingdome of God is Righteousnesse and Peace Rom. 14.17 and Ioy in the Holy Ghost In a word spirituall joy is a certaine consequent and assured note of one that hath found the Treasure The 3. Duty He hides it Lyra. Thirdly having found it and rejoyced in it he hideth it againe Lyra observeth that a Treasure hid in any mans ground is ordered by the civill law for the common peace of men to be equally divided betweene the finder of the Treasure and the owner of the Land Reason This man therefore hides it and conceales it not onely from other men but even from the owner and possessour of the field lest having gotten knowledge of it he would not have parted with the field at least would have claymed halfe the Treasure no marvell therefore though he hides it Not that thus it ought to be but that too too often thus it is It is naught it is naught saith the buyer but when he is gone aside he boasteth Prov. 20.14 Pro. 20.14 So wise and wily are the children of this world in their generation as our Saviour observeth Luk. 16.8 Luk. 16.8 As this man so generally all men use to hide their Treasures lest other men should defraud them at least share with them and so their Dividend and share should be the lesse Indeed there is no such cause in Christs Kingdome in that respect There is grace and glory enough for us all For besides that God cannot bee mocked or beguiled of his Treasure There is in the Word Grace enough for us all and though we bee many hearers yet every hearer may have all And in Christ there is merit enough to supply us all and in heaven is glory enough to make us all fully happy Joh. 14.2 In my Fathers house saith our Saviour are many mansions many dwelling places roome enough And indeed such is the nature of spirituall graces and blessings that the more they are communicated unto others the more they are increased in themselves like the widowes oyle that multiplied more the oftner it was powred from vessell to vessell 2. King â— 2 Neverthelesse How wee must hide our graces to hold proportion to the parable in the application of it to our selves I conceive it is fit for us to Hide our Treasure also and that in three or foure respects