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On
the Excellency
of
the soul.
a65.
but
onely the meer
mercy
of God
?
Oh therefore
now
biefs
God
for his
mercy
unto
thee,
that thy
foul
is
not
as
yeti
loft foul,
and
think
thus with
thy felf,
Lord,
if
these things
bee
true,
and
fo
dreadful to
hear
of, Oh
then
what would
be
my mifery
if
it
fhoutd prove
thatI
fhould bee the perfon
made
fenfible thereof,
by
experiencing the mifery
I
hear
of,
to hee
the miferable condition of
a
loft
foul
?
The
Scripture
doth
fay
concerning
the
joy
and happinefs
of
theSaints, That
eye
hath
not
Peen, nor
ear
heard,
neither
hath'i
Cot.
z.
,,.
itentred
into
the
heart
of
man
to conceive
wheat
their
happinefs
fhall6ee,
that
fhallive
faved.
And
the
like
may
bee
Paid
of
the
mifery
of
the
fouls
that
are
eternally
loft
;
and the
Scripture
doth
fay,
That
if
oar Gofpet
bee
hid, it
is
hid
to
them
that are
Cot.
4.3
loft.
I
befeech you
therefore remember
what bath
been
fpo-
ken concerning the
condition
of
io
Ifouls;
and
lay
to heart
what
bath been
fpoken
out of
this
Text, left
witlfin
a
little
time
you
feel
what
bath
been
fpoken
to bee
a
truth,
and
fo
bee forced
to
cry our,
True
it
is,
I
heard
fuch
a
day out
of
fuch
a
text,
what was the miferable condition of
a
foul
eter-
nally
loft, but
now
I
finde
it
by
experience
to
bee
true,
and
the
one
half I
now
feel,
I
could not
then
conceive
:
And
know
the reafon,
my
Brethren,
why we
lay the
mifery
of loft
fouls
thus
before you,
it
is
to
this
end, that
none
of
you
might
be
thus
loft
:
And
it
is a
bleffed thing for
you
to
hear
thefe
things;
for how many
are
there
that
have loft their
fouls,
which
till
they were thus
loft,
never
fo much
as
heard
any thing about
the
lofs
of
their
fouls,
which
if
they had,who
knows what might have
been
done
by
them
for the faxing
of
their fouls? Beloved,
fuch
a
fubje&
as
this
cannot
be fpoken
unto
you
without trembling; -for
certainly
this fubjeét
will
bee much adding
to
the
prevention of
the
lofs,
or
elfe
it
will mightily aggravate the
lofs
of
your fouls,
if
ever they
are
eternally
loft;
therefore all
I
have
at
prefent to
coup -
fel you
to,
is
, to
lay
thefe things
to
your hearts ferioufly,
as
alfo
to
biefs
God
for your
fouls,
that
as
yet
they
are
not
in
this
dreadful eternally loft condition.
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