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on

the

Excellency

of

the

Soul.

2jt

fhall

have

the

enjoyment fully and

perfeuly

hereaf-

ter.

And

then the

continual

exercife

that the

foul

shall

be:

bufied

in

,

to bee

for ever bletling, and magnifying, and

praifing

and

worfhipping

of God

and receiving in

from

God,

and letting out

its

felf to

God

:

The

eternal

Sabbath

that

it

{hall keep, and then the

eternal

reft

that

the

foul

(hall have,

when

it

comes to

God,

it

comes

there

to its

Center,

there

it

bath

perfea

peace and reff,

and can never

have trouble

further.

Yea,

and

it

!hall

live

in

God;

not

onely

God

live

in

it

,

but

it that!,

I

fay,

live in Go.l,

as

(though

the

fimilitude

comes

íhort of

it)

the

fish

fwimming in the

Sea

;

fo the

foul

(hall bee

fwimming in the

infinite Ocean

of

the ex-

cellency

of

the

great God.

It

is

faid

of

Tehn,

that

bee

Rev.

i.

io,

was

in

the

Spirit

on

the

Lords

day;

fo

the

foul

fluff

live in

Col.

3.3

God

:

(Mr life

is

hid

with

Chrifit

in

God

:

But our

life

(hall

bee

plain and apparent, not hidden but apparent

before

Angels,

and all

the

retl

of the

bleed,

and

fo

our lives

fnall bee after

another

manner than

now"they

are."

Now

to

open

every

one of

there

things

would

bee very

large

fo

that

it

fufñces

now onely

to prefent them to

you,

to

thew in

a

íhort

view,

the good

of the

foul

in the

full

en-

joyment

of

God, and what

it

(hall

have

from him, that

fo

yon

may fee what

the

lofs

of the

foul

means.

Now

if

theft

things bee

true

and

real,

Ohwhat

a

dreadful

thing

is

it

for

-a

man

to

lofe

his foul

,

for

a

man

to

come

to

lofe

all

this good,

that

others

that

have

fouls

like

unto

him

(hall

collie

to enjoy,

and

that

bee might have

enjoyed

as

well as

óthers

!

If

there

%V'ei

e no

more in

the

lofs

of

the foul

but

this, to

bed

call

away

from

the good

that

it,

is

capable

of ,

it

might

(hew.

tmto

us

this

lofe

to

bee

very

dreadful.

It

Lean

a

fpeech

-or Árs

ss

long

Pince

fpeaking

of

that

place

*here

Dke

.rdiet desire

Lazarus

to

come with

one

drop

of

watet

tn;

io61

his

tormented

tongue,

faith

bee

,

If

there

ietild

bee

but

one drop

of

heavenly felicity

let

into

Hell,

it

*odd

rjttencl

alP

th

a

fire

of

E-lelT

prefen.ly

:

And Chry-

I

i

a

fe/iome