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world , and they do
help
forward: the
work
that
my foul
is
fpecially
concerned
is
;
vat.- the
fervice
of
God
, and
therefore
I
account
it
a
greater
good
to
injoy thefe things;
than to
bee
without
them:
now
if
thou
cornea
to
-reafon
in
this manner ,
it
is
a;
fign that.
God hath (hewn thee
what
the
true
worth and excellency
of
thy
foul is.
6
The
price
But
that
I
might draw
to
a
condufion,
7 his
is
that
that
paid
for fouls
above
all
thtngs
will
demonf#rate
the
worth
and
excellency
of
proves its ex-
the
foul
, The
great
price
that
was
paid
for
it,
That Jefus
cellenc»
Chrifl fhould
bee willing
to
lay
down
his
life
to
purchafe
the
pardon
of the
fin
of thy
foul
,
to
deliver thy
foul
from
z
Pea
i.
t
a.
eternal
mifery, this (hews
the
great
worth of the
foul;
wee
are
not
redeemed
by
Over and gold ,
faith the
Apoflle
Peter,
V
err,
19,
by
of thefe
corruptible
things;
but
by
the
precious
blood
of
efacs.Chri
According
to
the
price
that
is
paid for
one;
you,
may
know
the
worth of
fuch
a
one:
Suppofe
there wete
divers
men
that
were
taken
captives, one
is
but
an
ordinary.
Mariner
,
you
will
fay perhaps
forty
pound will
redeem'
fuch
a
one
;
but
fuppofe
the other bee a
Gentleman,
or
a
Knight,
a
Noble-man, there
mull
go
five
hundred, or:
two,
,
or
three
thoufand
pounds
for their redemption,
according
to
the
excellency
of the
man ,
fo
mull
bee
the
price
of
his
ranfome
:
So
my
brethren,
when wee confider the price
of
mens
foul
s,that
were taken captive
by
fin,what was paid
for
them,
it
was
a
price
that was
more worth
than ten
thoufand
thoufand worlds
;
certainly
the
foul is
of
an excellent
na-
ture
:
Indeed
it cannot
bee
imagined
that
Jefus
Chrifl
would
have
taken
níans
nature
upon
him,
and dyed
an
accurfed
death to
have
.faxed
the
whole
world
from
being
diffolved ;,.Suppofe
it
had
lain
upon
this,
that
heaven
and
earth mull have been diffolved , except
Jefus
Chrill
would
take
mans
nature
upon him ,
certainly
Jefus Chrifl
would
have fuftered
heaven and earth
to
have gone
to
nothing,ra-
ther:than:to
have done
as
he
did: But when
Jefus
Chrifl
fart
that
thefe immortal'
fouls'
by
their
fin
were brought
.into
uch
a
condition, that
they mull perifh
to
all
eternity;
ex-
cept hee come and
take-
their
nature
upon
him,
and
lay
down