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,.--s
on
the
Excellency
of
the
Soul.
245
uttermoflihappinefs
that they
are capable
of
;
then indeed
you
Phew
true love
to
your fouls ,
when
as
your care
is
to
bring
them
to
the
attainment
of
that end that. God made
them for
:
Certainly
when God made
a
creature
of
fo
much excellency
,
hee
did intend
a
glorious
end
for
it;
And
let
this now
bee
your
great
care ,
and manifeft your
love
to
your
fouls,
I
fay,
in
this,
by
labouring
to attain the
end
that God
made them for. But this
(hall fufiûe for
the
fiat
point
, of
the
,precioufnefs
and
excellency
of
our
fouls.
Wee
come
now
to the
fecond
,
and
that
is
the main
Point
indeed
in the
Text,
that is,
That
the
lofs
of
this foul
is
a
moll
dreadful
lofs.
Slain
for
shin
yea
all
that a
man
bath
will
hee
give
for
has
life
;
Even
the Devil himfelf
could
fay
fo. The lofs
of
bo-
dily life wee account
a
great
evil
,
and therefore
the
Scrip-
ture
calls
Death
by
the
name
of the
King of
Terrours;
and
is
it
fo
great
an evil
to lofe
a
bodily
life,
to
have
the
foul
and body but feparated
?
Is the
face
of
a
bodily death
fo
gaftly
?
Oh haw
great
an evil
,
and
how
gaMMly
is
the
face
of the
eternal
death
, and
the
lofs
of
the immortal
foul?
This
Point
my
brethren,
is a
Point of
exceeding
great
cone_
cernment to underhand; wee (hail
therefore,
Fiat,
Inquire
what wee
mean by
the
lofs
of
the
foul,
or
when
may
the foal bee faid
to bee loll
?
The
fecond
thing,
Wherein
Both
the dreadfulnefs of the
lofs of the
foul confift?
And then thirdly
,
I
(hall
difcover
to
you
fome aggrava-
tions
of the
evil of
the
lofs of
the foul.
Fouryhiy,
And
then wee (hall
come
to
apply all
toge-
ther.
For
the
firil
then
,
What
doth Chrifl mean when
hee
faith,
what
profiteth
it
a
man,
if
bee
gain
the
whole
world,anei
lofe
h foul
?
Fitll,
You are
to
know
this,
That
wee are not
Paid
to
lofe
our
fouls, becaufe they
fhall
bee
annihilated,
and
ceafeto
bee
, the ceafing
of
the
foul
to
bee
,
tbat
is
not the
lofs
of
H
h
z
the