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2.64.
On
the
.Excellency
of
the
Soul.
that
(ball
be with God. for
ever eternally
Welling & praifing
of him, and
flail
point thee out,
as
with the finger,
befo-e
God, the
Angels, and
blei:edSarn
:s,
and
fay,
Behold,
this
is
bee
that
was
an hypocrite, that;
fate under the fame
word,
and
that
did
partake
of the famemeans and ordinances
as
I
Pfal
51 7.
did,
and
yet
bee
bath
loft
his :foul
:.
Foe this is
the
man
that
made
not
God
his
.flay. So
all they that perifh
thall
ftand
before
men and
Angels,
and
bee
pointed
at
by
them,
fay-
ing
,
Lot
this
is
the man, and
loe
this
is
the woman,
that
made not
God their
árength,
but
did
fo
love
their
fin,
as
that
they
would not
by
any means,
bee
perfwaded
to
part
with
it,,
but would rather
venture the
lofs
of their
fouls, to
injdy;their
fins,
and fulfil
their loft,
than
',part
with
their
fins
to
fave-their fouls.
The
tenth
aggravation of
the
mifery
of
a loft
foul,
is
this
, When
they (hall fee
others
taken
up
into the
-King-
dome
of
Heaven, who were
as
unlikely
to
bee faved
as
themfelves
,
and they
themfelves
lhut out,
and
ea-I.-ful-
ly,
loft
:
It
may bee thou
that
art
a
carnal ,Matter
çnayft
fee
thy poor
fervant taken
up
to God,
and
thou
thy
fell
fliut
out
;
or
it
may bee
the carnal Father
or
Mother
may fee
their çhilde
faved,
and yet they
themfelves
oft
;
Oh
this will bee
a
fad aggravation
oftheir lofs.
And
thus
you
have heard-the
dreadful
lofs
of the
foul
, toge-
ther
with the aggravations
thereof
in thefe.ten
particulars.
Now
for
the
Ufe.
Is
it
fo,
that the
lofs
of
the foul
eternally
is
:fo
dread
-
ful
a
,
lofs,
as-you
have heard
it
is?
Oh
then
let
every
one
here
biefs
God
for
their
fouls
,
.
that
their
fouls
are
not
thus loft.
It
might
-
have_
been
fo
long
ere
this
time
;
when
fuch
a
kinfman
off
thine dyed-1
or thy
fellow-fer-
vant
,
or
when
fuch
a
neighbour or
ac*ivaintance of
thine
dyed,
if
thou
hadfl
but
dyed when they dyed
,
thy
fonl,it
may
bee,
had
been
eternally
loft.
This
I
can
affure
you,
that
.;naturally
you are
all
loft
:,
and what makes
the
difference
between
thy foul,
and the
condition of
a
loft
foul,
as you
have
heard,
but