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on
the Excellency
of
the
Soul.
get great matters
to
themfelves
in
the world
;
no,faith hee,
expe6t no
fuch
matter,
but
deny
your
felves,
and take
up
my crofs. But this may feem
to bee
hard,
it
may
bee
our
crofs
may bee the lofs
of
all , the
lofs
of
our
lives ,
and
mut+
wee take
up
that
?
yes, faith Chri(t, in the verfe before
my
Text , bee not
folicitous
what
your
crofs is
like to
bee,
onely bee willing to take
it
up. And the
truth
is
, the
more willing
you
are
to
take it
up,
the better will it
bee
for
you
,
and
you
will
get
nothing
by
feeking to
thift
for
your
felves,
For
whofoever
fave
his.
life
hall
lofe
it,
and
who-
Vctf,,g,
foever
will
lofe his
life
for
my
fake
flhall
finde
it.
It
may
bee
when
you
meet
with fufferings in the
world,
you will think
to
shift
this
way,
or
that
way,
but
you
will ger nothing
:
If
you
would
fave your
lives
by forfaking the truth ,
it
is
the
onely
way to
lofe
your
lives
:
But
if
you
bee willing to
lofe
your lives for my
truth,
you
flail
it fave
them
;
or
what
if
by
forfaking mee and my
truth,
when
you
meet
with fuffering,
you
fhould
fave your
lives, and your
elates,
and
live brave-
ly
in
theworld
,.
do
you think
you
are
any
gainers
by this
?
you
aree
infinitly
mifaken
:
If
you
call
up the
account,
you
.
will
finde
that
you have
gotten nothing
all
:
For
what
is
a
man profited
if
hee
(hall gain
the
whole
world
, and
lofe
his
own
foul?
And thus
you
fee
how
the words come in.
Thefe
words
that
I
have
read unto
you, are
of
exceeding
ferions confideration
:
And
indeed
they fhould bee
as
Thunder in
every mans ears.
Some
Scripture
that
a
Miniaer
may preach on
, may concern
fume
particular perfon
in
a
Congregation more than
others
:
But here
is a
Text
concerns
every one
that
hath
a
foul, Man
and woman, high and low,
old and young,
What
fhall it profit any
one
to
gain
the
whole
word,
and
to
lofe their own
foul?
-
--
I
have read
of
one that
gave counfel
to gehn King
of
Portugal
that
hee
would repeat this Text to himfelf , and (pend one
quarter
of
an hour
in the
meditation of
it,
whatfkallit
profit
a
man
if
hee
gain
the
whole
world,
and
lofe
his
own
fault
and
that
hee
would
make the words
of
this.
Text to
bee the cloze of his
prayer
continually,
What
Pall-
it ¡raft
a
man
to
train
the
Yehsk