The Epiftle Dedicatory. betrayed ? So ma. y at 1411 will cry out, What have lie what have I beirayed,: i have loll God, and chrip, and Heaven, and have betrayed my precious and immortal foul into the hands of divine Juftice, and into the hands of Satan. who thefe ?rien are that will at tall thus cry oat, this Treatife does difcover. r have rend that there was a time when the Romans did wear jewels on their /hoes moll men in this day do worfe, for they trample that rnatchlefs jewel of their fouls tinder feet and who theft are, this Treadle does difcover. One well ob--i Terve', That whereas God bath given many other cb,.yr things double, two eyes to fee with, two ears to hear with, two hands to work with, and two feet to walk with, to the intent that the failing of the one might be fupplied by the other ; bur he bath given us but one foul, and if that be loft, haft thou (faith he) ano. ther foul to give in recompence for it r New, who thole are whole fouls are in airafe eflate, and who thole are whore fouls are in danger of being loll for ever, this Treatife does plainly and fully difcover. To defcribe to Pfal. 15. the life who that man is that is truly happy in this P. r al. 144. Is'. wort ,and that fhall be bleli for ever in the other world, is the work of ibis enlaing Treatife. The grace of the Covenant in us is a fore evidence of Gods entring into Ithe Cotenant of grace with us. To be in a gracious fate is true happinefs, but to know our felves to be in fuch a /tate, is the top of our happinefs in this world. A man may have grace, and yet (for a time) not know it. The oh. 5. 1 child lives in the womb but does not know it. A man may be in a gracious 'late, and yet not fee, it ; he may have Pfal. 77. a laving work of God upon his foul, and yet not difecrit prai. 88, it; he may have the root of the matter in him, and yet not be able to evidence it, Now to help flab poor hearts to r a:
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