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on
the Excellency
of
the
°Soul,
267
-So
it
fhould bee
here,
whatever
wee
lofe,
wee are
to
bee
comforted in this,
that
our fouls
are
not
gone and
loft:
It
is
a
notable
Scripture,
in
t
Pet.
4.
verf.
làft.
wherefore
let
á
hem
that
Pifer
according
to
the
will
ofGod, commit
the
keep
-
arg
oftheir
fouls
to
him
in
well
doing,
at
unto
a
faithful
Crea-
tor.
As
if the
Apoftle
íhould
fay
,
you
are like
to
meet
with great
fufferings, you
may likely bee
deprived
of
all
you have, of
your
elates,
and
of
all
your
comforts, and
may
come
to
fuller
much,
yet
commit
the
keeping
of
your
fouls
to
him in
well doing,
as
unto
a
faithful
Creator
:
Why,
they
might have
Paid,
but what fhali become of o-
ther
things
?
if
(forms,
and tempefts,
and
fufferings
come,
what (hall
become
of
our
eftates?
what (hall
become
of
our
livelihoods, and
of
our bodies
?
why faith
the
Apoftle
,
as
for them,
for
your
eftates, for
your
bodies, it may
bee
they
may perifh; you are
not
fo much
to
look
after them, but
commit
the
keeping
of
your fouls
unto
him,
as
unto
a
faithful
Creator.
The
Apoftle
here exhorts
them
what to do
in times of
fufferings,
and
by
what
hee
doth
exprefs, bee
doth imply,
that
they Mould take no
care for outward
e-
flare, and body; it
is enough
that
your fouls are
well,
corn
-
mit
the keeping
of
your fouls
to
him,
as
unto
a
faithful
Creator,
wee
have enough
if
that
bee
fafe
:
You
know
in
time
of
danger,
as
fires, and other times,
if
a
man hath
any precious
thing, bee carries
that prefently to
fome
fpeci-
al
friend, and
commits
the
keeping
of
that.
to
him; his
writings and
fuch
things
,
wherein
his
elate
is
molt
:
So
faith the
Apoftle,
in
the time of
publick
danger, Take
care
to
commit
the
keeping
of
your fouls
to
him,
as
unto
a
faithful Creator, and
you
are well enough.
That
is
the
firft.
Secondly,
If
the lofs
of the
foul
bee
fo
dreadful
a
lofs,
Oh
let
us biefs
God
then
for
Jefus
Chrift,
without
whom
all
our
fouls had
been eternally
loft, never
a
foul
in
the
world
but mutt
have
perilbed
unto all
eternity,
had
not
Jefus
Chrifl
come
into
the world
to
bee
the great
Saviour
of
fouls;
All-the Angels
in
Heaven, and men
in
the world
could
ne-
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