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on
the
Excellency
of
the
Soul.
269
ful
lofs,
and onely faved by
that great
Saviour
that
is
come
into
the world.
And
then thirdly;
If
the
lofs
of
the
foul
bee
fo
dreadful,
then
it
mutt needs bee
a'
dreadful evil for
any
to
have
any
hand in-this tors, or
to
bee any
furtherance of
it
Take
heed
that
thou
haft
no
hand at all in
fo
great
an
evil
as
this
is
;
Oh
how much
better
thou
hada
never
been
born,
than
to
have
a
hand
info
great
an-
evil
!
wee
account
thole
mi=
ferable creatures,
that
have
a
hand
in
the
lofs
of
King
-
domes
;
to
have
a
hand in
the
undoing of one
foul is a
greater
mnifchief,
than to
be
the
caùfa
of the undoing
of
a
whole Kingdome
for
their
outward ei ire
:
If
one fhould
bee
the
caufe
of
the
ruine
of
a
whole Kingdome
for their
outward
eaare,
you
would
fay
that certainly
it had
been
better that that
man
had
never been born
Certainly
thou
that
haft
a
hand in the undoing of
any
foul, thou wert bore
to
do
a
greater
mifchief
than
fuch
a
one'; if any
friend
of
yours
take
a
courfe whereby bee undoes
hinnfel'f,
and
when
the evil confequence of
his unwife courfes
appears,
you
a
e
ready
to fay,
Bleffed
bee
God I
had-no hand in
it.
If
peo-
ple
will damn
their
fouls
eternally,
take heed
you
have no
hand in
it
;
and
if
any
of
your
children, friends,
fervants
acquaintance, neighbours, fhould
peri+_11
eternally
,
yet
it
will
bee-a
great
mercy
if
you
have no hand in it
:
People
may have-
a
hand
in
the
lofs
of
other.
mens
.fouls
many
mates.
As
by
carelefnefs
of
the
Nils
of
'thole
committed to
their
charge; they
may come
'to
bee
loa
by
thy
carelefnefs;
by
thy
ne4e6t
their
fouls may
perifh; and efpecially
it
concerns
thofe
that
take the
charge
of fouls, they
had
need
look
to it
,
that
thofe
do
not
cry
out
againat
them
in
Hell, that it-was
through
their
negle&
that
they are
here
now
and'
mua
lye here
for
ever?
Oh the cry of
a
foul
againa
a
mangy
is
a
dreadful thing
!
perhaps
the
fouls
of
fome
of your chil
-.
dren
may
bee in
Hell,
crying
out againft
you for
the
laeg-
lea
of
them, that
you
regarded
them
not,
you
let
them
pro
-
phane Sabbaths,
you
could
hear
therm
fwear, and
rebuke
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them