For surely those words of our Saviour shall we find
full true, "Where thy treasure is, there is also thine heart." If
we lay up our treasure in earth, in earth shall be our hearts. If
we send our treasure into heaven, in heaven shall we have our
hearts. And surely, the greatest comfort any man can have in his
tribulation is to have his heart in heaven.
If thine heart were indeed out of this world and in heaven, all the
kinds of torments that all this world could devise could put thee
to no pain here. Let us then send our hearts hence thither in such
a manner as we may, by sending hither our worldly substance hence.
And let us never doubt but we shall, that once done, find our
hearts so conversant in heaven, with the glad consideration of our
following the gracious counsel of Christ, that the comfort of his
Holy Spirit, inspired in us for that, shall mitigate, diminish,
assuage, and (in a manner) quench the great furious fervour of the
pain that we shall happen to have by his loving sufferance of our
further merit in our tribulation.
If we saw that we should be within a while driven out of this land,
and fain to fly into another, we would think that a man were mad
who would not be content to forbear his goods here for the while
and send them before him into that land where he saw he should live
all the rest of his life.
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