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the Excellency
of
the
Soul.
a45.
And fecondly,
All our
fouls
do now
naturally wander
a-
way from
God
,
continually depart
,
and wander
from
the
infinite
glorious-firft-being of
all
things
;
Thou
that
art
an
old
man
or,
woman
that haft
lived many years,aud God
hath'
not revealed himfelf in
working
the true
work of
conver-
fion
in thee,
to
change thy
eftate
, know,
that
thy
foul
bath
been departing and wandring from
the
Lord all the
dayes
of
thy
life
,
to this
very
prefent,
thou
art like
a
loft
fheep,
wandring
up
and
down
in
the
wildernefs ,
and
in danger to
bee
deftroyed every
minute
of an hour
by
Lorne
wilde
beaft
or
other;
though
it
is
true,
thy
foul
is
not
made
a
prey
to the
Devil
fo
as
to
deftroy
thee
utterly,
yet
thou
haft been
in
danger all
the
while thou haft
been
wandring from
the
Lord
to
bee
made
a
prey
upon
by
the Devil
,
and
utterly to
have
been
caft away.
Yea, and
thirdly
,
There
is
a
great deal
of
mifery upon
thy-
foul
,
if thou
kneweft it; as,
contrary to that light
that
bee hath fet up
in
thy underftanding ,
there
is
blindnefs
in
thee, there
is
errour
in
thee
;
contrary
to
that
he
linefs'that
was
at
firft
in
thy
heart
and
foul
,
there
is
nothing but fin
and wickednefs , all
the
fpauns
and
feeds
of
all kinde
of
fin
is in thy
heart
;
there
is
a
great deal of
that
evil
that is
contrary
to
what thy foul was made
withall at firft,
there
is
enmity in
thy
foul.
against
God
himfelf.
Yea,
and
fourthly, Thy foul
is
in
a
fuccourlefs,helplefs,
fhiftlefs condition in
refped
of
what thou art able
to
do ,
or what
all the creatures
in
heaven or
earth
are
able
to
do
for thee
;
let
all the Angels
in
heaven
,
and
men in
the
world
, joyn together
to
feels
to
do good
to
tity foul
they
are not
able
to
deliver
thyfoui
from
that evil
that
now
it
is
in, and
that it
is
in further
danger
of.
And
this
is
the
rea
--
fon
of
that phrafe
that
you
have
in
Luke
19.t
o.
The
Sox
of
man is
come
toPeek
and
ró
fave that
which
was loft.
We
are
all loft
sheep going
aftray^,
and Jefus Chrift came
to
Leek
and
to
fave loft
fouls; Souls
deprived of
the
glory
of
God,
Souls
wandring away
from
God,
Souls
filled
with
CA
,
Souls
fuccoitrlefs
,
and
helplefs
in
regard of
any
H
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