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on.
the Excellency
of
the
Soul.
_Warne
bath
fuch
an expretlion,.that bee
would rather
fufe
fer
thoufands
of
years in pain
and
torment
in
Hell,
than
bee
would
lofe
that
good
that
bee
might
have in
the
enjoy-
ment
of
Cod
;
he
accounted
pxna
damn-, the
lofs
of God
to bee the greater,
and
it
were
a
good
fign
of
a
foul
that
did
and
,riland
its
own
excellency,
and
what good
it
were ca-
pable
of,
to fear
as
well the
lofs of
God,
and what good
it
might have in
God, and to
account
that,
as
great
an evil
to
it,
as
pain,
and horrour, and
torment
Why,
when wee
come
to
exprefs
the wrath of God
to
you, and
the
evil that
fin
deferves, we fpeak
of
Hell fire,
and
fo
the
Scripture doth;
if
wee would
fet out the great
evil
of
punilhment
( when
wee
fpeak
to men
and
women
that
are
lead
by
fenfe
wee would
tell
them_
of
their
bodies
being
thoufands
of
years
in fcalding
Lead,
and kept alive
there,
and
this would
(tattle
and
amaze
them; but
certainly
the
evil
of
the
fouls
rejection
from
God,
and being
call
off from
the
good that
there
is
in God,
it
is as
great, if
not
a
greater evil;
and
a
good
fign)
I
fay
it
were
God
is going;
to
thew
what
our
fouls
are
to
us
and
the
,true excellency of them:;
-If
wee
begin
to bee
affe.edwith
the
lofs
of
God himfelf, and
the
good
wee might have in
God,
not
onely afraid
of
Hell,
hecaufe
of
fire
and
torment there, but
afraid
of
having
our
fouls
loft, becaufe of being deprived
of
fuch
infinite
good,
as
otherwife wee might
come
to
enjoy
with
God
:
A gra-
cious
heart
hat
h
"niore.
thought .about .lofing
the
good
that
there
is
in
God;
than
.
of the
pain
that
knee
,
ll
ould feel
in
Hell.
To fet it
out
a
littlebut in this refemblance, of
the
eye
.
being deprived
of
light
An eye
that
hath beheld the
glory
of the Heavens, and of the
Creatures,
though
it
fneuld
never
have any
pain, but
onely
there fhould bee
fuch
an
111
humour, fo
as
to
take
away
all
light
from
it;
why
what
hurt
is
here
to
the
eye
?
it
is
but
onely the
abfence
of
a
good
thing,
the
eye
feels
no
pain
;
but what man
in the
world
.
but
would
rather bee
willing
to
have his eyes
to
fee,
and
not
to
bee blinde all
his
life
time,
than
to
have
the
enjoy
anent.