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a
On
the
Excellency of
the
Soul.
in
the
world,
one
would think
that
fuch
a
meditation
as
this
should break
his
heart
in peeces
:
That I
know nothing
to
the
contrary but
föme may bee
in
Hell
for
my caufe.
--
And
fo
many
other waies
wee might
name,
how
a
man
might
have
his
hand in the
lofs of
the
fouls
of others; what
way
fo-
ever thou hail
a
hand
in the
fin
of
others,
.or
keeping of
o-
thers from
good,
fo
many
waies thou mayefl have
a
hand
in
the
lofs
of their
fouls
:
But
I
intend
not to
fland
upon
this point,
only
confider
of
it,
and
the Lord
firike the
hearts
of
thole
that
are
guilty in this
kind
;
But
the
main
ufe
that
I
would fpend
the
chief part of
the
time in ,
is
this
,
túe
4
If
the
lofs
of
a
foul
bee
fo
dreadful, then
hence
is
re-
buked
the
folly
and madnefs
of moll.
people
that
have
no
care of their fouls, but
through
their
own wretchednefs
and
vilenefs they fuller their
fouls to
perifh
eternally;
all
their
care
is
in
pampering their
bodies and making
much
of
them, but
little
minding their fouls
,
and
their
eternal
e-
lates
:
Certainly
when the bodies of thofe
fouls
lhall
meet
them
at the day
of judgement, it
will bee
a
very
dreadful
meeting: When thine
immortal
foul
(hall
know
what
it
is
to bee loll
for
ever,
and
(hall bee
brought
to
joyn
again
with
the
body,
Oh how
do
you
think
it
"will
look
upon
that
cuffed carkafs?
Oh
this
is
that
carkafs,
that body
of
mine,
for whofe
fake I
tnufl
perifh for
ever,
,
yea and
wee
rnufl
aloes
bee joyned both
together,
to
bee fuel for
the
_
wrath
of
the
Infinite
God
to
burn
upon
to
all
eternity
l
certainly
fouls
are
loll, and perifh
thick and threefold, they
go
down
to
Hell,
as
Bees
flie
to the hive in
the
time
of
a
florin
:-There
are manywaies
by which
the
foul
may bee
loll,
though
there
bee
but
one by which
it
may
bee faxed.
The
feveral
;ivies
by
which men
-come
to
lore
their
Souls.
As
fir-fl,
Some
there
are
that
lofe
their
fouls'by
wandring
and down in darknefs all the
.dales
of
their
lives,
by
wandring