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On
the
Excellency
of
she
Soul.
247
and
acknowledge
:
Oh
it
is
indeed
a
dreadful thing
the
lofs
of
the
foul.
But now becaufe it
is
a
point
of
fo
great
moment
,
I
will
not
fatisfie my
felf
meerly
in
telling
you
thefe
things
,
but endeavour
to
open them
unto
you
,
what
the
evil
of
this
lofs
is ,
that
if it
might
bee,
by
prefenting
this
before
the
fouls
of
_men,
they
may fee more
the danger
that
they
are
in and
how
the Devil
bath
gulled
and
de-
ceived them all this while
:
Ic may make many fouls
to
bee
at
a
nand, if
they come
to
know
what this
lofs
indeed
loth
mean.
Nov
I (hall endeavour the
opening
of
this
in
the three
lal+
particulars
that I
named.
Fir[I,
For the
re;edion
of the foul from God
fo
as
to
bee
deprived of
all
thè
good
there
is
in
God
,
and
that
it
is
capable of
;
Now for
the
underPtanding
of the evil of this,
wee
mull inquire what
is
that
good
that
the
fouls
ofmen are
capable
of,
or
elfe
wee
cannot
come
to
underhand what
an
evil thing
it
is
to
lore
it.
Now
for
the
good
that the
foul
is
capable of
,
I
will
but
onely
name
fome
heads unto
You
, for
in
a Treatife
that
fome
of
you
have
in
your
hands,
of
Mofes
loehing
to
the
recòmpenfe
of
reward,
there
are
the
principal heads
of
the
good and
excellency
that
the
foul
is
capable of
,
and
fnall
bee
blell'ed
in heaven
eternally
with
:
And
the
apprehend-
ing the
lofs
of there things, will difcover much , The
fira
part of
the
evil
of
the
lofs
of'the foul.
I
will but
in
a
very
brief
way
prefent them
unto
you.
Why the
Glory of
God
upon
the,
the Image
of
God
,
the
Life
of
God,
the
Divine nature
that
the
foul
ìs
capable
of
:
Now
for
the
foul never
to
live
the Life
of
God, nor
to
have
his
Image,
nor any
of the
Glory of
God
upon
it
,
this
is
a
fearful evil
to
thofe
that
know
the
excel-
lency
of
thefe
things
;
of
the
blefled
vifion
of
'God
in
heaven;,
to
fee him
that
is
the
infinite
ñríl
-bung
of all
things,
to
fee him
as
bee
is
,
to
fee
him
that
bath all
.ex-
cellency in him, and
to
fee
all
the good there
is
in God, as
the
good
of
the
foul. The
foul
is capable
of the
.
under-
flándìng of
dale
mimic
of
God,
to
have all
the
glorious
gout.,