a man must be poor, before he will part with his Jewels; but if a man be throughly pinched with poverty he will part with his old Gold, and Rings, and Jewels, and all; but he will never part with his Jewels, till he be forced to it by extremity. So all the lusts of the heart, all the things of the world, that the mind and affections run upon, men account them their Jewels, and they will not part with them, till they be pinched with poverty. Thus it was with the Jaylor, Acts 16. 30 when he was pinched with this poverty, he cryes out, Men and brethren, what shall I do to be saved? When his heart was pinched with this poverty, he was content to part with any thing, he was willing to do any thing, to hear∣ken to any terms that he might have mercy: So that it is necessary for a man to have all these Privations wrought in his heart, and be made poor, else he will never take Christ upon those terms whereupon he is offered.Secondly, Suppose a man should conceive worth to be in Christ; suppose he should put a great price upon him, yet if a man be not under these Privations, if he be not pinched with poverty, with Spiritual need and want; he will never use all means for the attaining of the Kingdome of God. He will never take himself to all those courses that God hath commanded himself to be sought in. It was need that made Ahab send up and down all Countries, and Soiles for water; it was need that made the rich Woman of Su∣nem, to hazard her self, and her family, and houshold in a forraign Country; she would not have gone a mile of that Journey, but for her po∣verty, 0