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On
the Excellency
of
the
-Souk
would bee
a
prevailing means
to
him
to
perfwade
him
not
to
do
;
yet all
that
is
in
cods
Word
given
to
perfWade
to
the contrary,
loth
not;
hee
fns
wilfully, and
if
bee
perifh,
bee will
bee found
to
perifh wilfully.
It
may
bee
you
will further fay,
you
are ignorant,
and
therefore
if
wee did know
better,
wee would
do better;
I
anfwer
,
yet
it
is
wilful
, becaufe
you are
wilfully
igno-
rant;
and therefore your lofs
is
wilful.
The
fixth
.
aggravation
of the
lofs
of
the foul,
it
is
this ,
becaufe the
eternal
lofs
of
the
foul
will bee
á
great
lofs
for
a
little
matter.
For
a
man to
venture the
lofs
of
his
foul for
the
gaining
of
a
Kingdome, bee would
think
it
fométhing,
but yet
the
Text
tells
us
hee
would
bee
a
great
lofer;
but
if
fo
great
a
lofer
to
gain
a Kingdome for
his
foul,
O
then
how great
an
evil will
it
bee for
a
man
or
woman
to
lofe
their
fouls
for
trifles
!
You do
not get
the world for your
fouls, but
perhaps
you
do
venture
the lofs of
your fouls
for
the
getting
of
a
groat,
or
fvzpence,
or twopence,
or
it
may
bee
upon
the
fear of
the
difpieafure,
or
anger
of
your Mafter
or
Mi-
fîrefs;
you
will venture
the
lofs
of
your fouls
in telling
a
lye
to
excufe
you, or
it
may
bee for
the
fatisfying
of
a
bale
lull
one quarrer of
an hóur,thou
wilt
venture the eternal
lofs
of
a p,recious
foul,
more
worth
than
ten
thoufand worlds.
Did
you never
go
into
the place
where
condemned
per-
Eons
were, and
ask
themwhat they
are
there
for
á
why,
it
may bee
.fume
of
them will
fay
but
fora
finali
matter,
it
maybee
the undue gaining
of two
or
three
(billings,
and
now
my life mull'
go
for
it
:
So
many
lofe
their
fouls,
even
for
trifles, for nothing, for
a
bate
lult,
which
is
worfe'than
nothing
;
the
confideration of
which will
make
it
the
more
dreadful.
Seventhiy, The'Iofs
of
the
foul will
bee very
dreadful
upon
this
confideration,
becaufe
manywill lofe
their
fouls,
that
are
very
nigh
to
the
laving
of
their
fouls
Ì
fay,
the
nearer
a
man
or
woman doth come
t'o
the
faving
their
fouls,
and yet lofe them; the
lofs
of
the
foul upon
that
confidera-
Lion