273 / 1054
On
the Excellency
of
the
Soul.
273
wandrinz in
the
waies
of
fin,
in
the dark, and
fo are
a
con-
tinual prey
unto
the
Devil
:
how
many,
yea
and in
many
places, the generality of people, they
go
on
continually
in
blindnefs
and
darknefs,
in
the
vanity
of
their converfations,
knowing nothing
of God,
nor
of
their
own fouls
;
and
the
firlt time
that
the
eyes
of their
fouls
are
opened
and
enlight-
ned, it
is
when
they
are
irrecoverably
undone
;
yea
the
first
thing
that
many fouls
do
ever
undertland concerning
themfelves,
icis this,
I
am
loft and undone for ever; it
is
fo
with many,
certainly
they
know
nothing about
their
own
fouls, nor
about
God, till they
come to know
this,
I
am
call
away
from
God,
and
have
loftmy
foul
for ever.
Secondly,
Others,
they
lofe
their fouls by
pawning of
them
away;
by
pawning
of
them,
what
is
that
you
will
fay
?
why,
you know what
it
is
to
pawn
a
thing,
when you
come
and receive from
a
Broker
fuch
a
thing,
you
lay fomething
elfe to
pawn for
it,
and
upon this condition
, that
within
fuch
a
time you bring
them
fuch
a
thing that
you
bargain
for,
andif
you
do not bring
it
againtt
that time,
then
you
lofe
your
pawn
:
Thus many
pawn away their
fouls
;
when
there
is a
temptation to
any
tin,
and they
have
a
mind
to
it,
now
upon
the
commiilìon
of
this
fin
thou
dolt
lay
thy
foul
to
pawn
to the Devil
only
upon this
condition,
that
if
thou
dot}
repent and
beleeve
before
God cuts thee
off,
then
thou
flak
have thy foul
again; upon
thefe tearms moll peo-
ple
fin,
and in
cafe thou
doll
not
bring
repentance
and
be-
leef
in
Chrift,
thy foul is
gone
I
appeal to
you,
there
is
a
temptation to
fin, you know
it
is
a
fin,
and there is
a
great
deal of
danger
in
it,
well but
you
have
a
mind to
it
,
and
you will needs
have
it,
now
you
will acknowledge
this;
in-
deed if
I
do not repent,then
I
fhall bee
damned, but
before
I
die, I
hope to
repent,
and
fo
I
hope
that
my foul
(hall not
perith;
that
is
as
much as-to
fay,
I
will lay my foul in
pawn,
-and
if I
can bring
repentance before
I
die,
I
will have my
foul again,
but
if
I
do
not,
then
my
foul
is
gone;
thus
upon
the
commiilìon
of
every
fin,
thou
doll lay thy
foul
to
pawn
,
the
devil bath
it
upon
fuch rearms
as
thefe
:
Now. how ;many
M
m
thou-