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On
the excellency of the
Soul.
2.53
ment
of
thoufands
of
gold and
fiver
?
Now
if
the
bare
ab-
fence
of
the
fight
of a
mans eyes
bee
fo
great
an
evil, and
hee would
rather almoft
endure
any
pain, than
to
have his
eyes
deprived
of
the light, then certainly
the abfence
of
God
muff needs
bee'
a t
tdit
dreadful
evil
to
the
foul
when
the
Sun
fhines
in its lut
}re, how
beautiful
is
it
?
and how plea
-
fant
to
that it
is
at
midnight,
when
it
is
difmal
dark
?
why
what
is
done
?
it
is
onely
the
abfence
of
one
Creature, one
Creature
is
here now, and
fl
Ines
glwic
tfly "upon
us, and
at
midnight
the
Creature
is gone
:
fo
¡Prat
a
rn
ghtr~change
and
alteration
would
there
bee in the
foul,
if
fhould bee
deprived
of
the prefence
of the.
Lord
?
if the Lord
who
is
infinite in glory bee
prefent
with the
foul,
and
II-line
upon
it to
all
eternity,
Oh
holy gloxiótis
wul
ç
bere.Q
but
Gods
withdrawiiig
himfelf, fully and
everlafliifglÿ fróth
the
foul,
Oh what
a
difmal night
of
darknefs will there bee
l
and
therefore
it
is
a
molt dreadful thing for the
foul
of
a
man
to
bee loft in regard of
this
firft particular.,
in
regard of
the
pri-
vation of.that
good
that
it
is
capable of:
.
.