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On
the
Excellency
of
the Soul.
229
wards
you one way
or
other from all
eternity,
and
intends
to
fetch out
a
great deal
of
honor
to
his
name
from
you one.
way
or other, and therefore
his
Providence
is
towards
you;
God
obferves you
,
and marks
you
what
way
you
take,
his
eye is upon you
,
for bee
intends
to
bring
fome
great
glory
out
of
you,
God will
not
lofe
his
creature fully,
you may
lofe
your own
foui
s
,
but God will
no:
lofe the glory
that
hee
might have from you
,
but hee will
have glory
from
you one
way
or
other.
And
if
God hath given
you
immortal
fouls , you have
caufe to
biefs
him,
becaufe
whatfoever
you are now ,
yet
you are fuch
as
are capable
of
all
the good
that
ever
Jefus
Chrill hath
purchafed
and therefore
it
is
a
happy
thing
for
one
to
have
an
immortal foul
, becaufe
they
are
not
out
of
capacity
of receiving
that
good
that the
Lord
Chrift bath
purchafed for
his
people;the
brute
beafts are
not
capable,
they
are capable
of
no
higher
good ,
but
to
eat
and drink, and live here
a
while,
and have
their
fenfes
to
bee pleafed, and there
is
an
end of them, but know,what-
foever thou
art,
thou art
capable of all
the
good
that ever
Chrift hath purchafed , and therefore
thy condition
is
a
great deal better in
that
refpea
than the
condition
of all
other creatures
in
the world. And
thou having
a
foul
with-
in thee
,
God hath
made
thee
for
eternity
one way
or
o-
ther
,
and hee
intends for
to
have
thee to
live
to
all
eter-
nity in
one
condition
or
other
:
Now
it
is
I
fay ,
a
happi-
nefs
to
bee
made
fuch a
creature, as
that
God foould
have
thoughts
about from
all
eternity.
It
may bee
you
will
fay
,
It
were
better
that
it
were
other
-
xwife
with ss.
I
confefs
fuch
is
the condition of
fome
through
their
fin,
living and
dying in
it, that
it
were
better
ten
thoufand.
times
that
they
had
been Dogs,
or
Toads, and
Serpents,
I
but
that
is
but
through thy wickednefs but
it
cannot
bee
faid
of the vildell
alive,
for
there
is
none of
you ,
but
for
ought Angels or
men
know
,
may live
eternally to
the
praife of
Gods grace
in
Chrift, you have
fuch
kinde
of
na-
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