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On
the Excellency
of
the
Soul.
ÿ;;:k.
Yta
to
thoufands
have
loft
this
their pawn ,
they have not
brought
Faith and Repentance within their time before they
died,
and
fo
the Devil
bath
kept
the
pawn, and will keep
it
for
ever
:
And
it
is
more
dangerous
the
laying of
fuch
a
pawn,
than
the
ordinary laying of
pawns
to
Brokers.
Fir[t,
There
is
no
fuch
pawn
that
pollibly
can
bee
laid
as
this, the
foul
of
a
man
:
Men and
women
that
have any
wifdoine,
they will
not
lay pawns
of
thofe things
that
are
precious to
them,
Oh
it
goes
to
their
hearts
to
think, what
.
mutt
I lay
this
to
pawn
!
I
thought
I
fhould
never have
lived to the
day
to
lay fuch
a
thing to pawn,
I
but
when
thou cornett
to
lay thy foul to
pawn ,
thou
layer
a
more
precious
thing than all the world
is.
Secondly,
When
thou
layef} a
thing to pawn, thou doll
prefix thy
own time
for
the
redeeming
of
it
again,, per-
haps two,
three,
four
months
before
thou
bring
that
that
is
bargained for;
but
when thou layeft thy
foul
to
pawn,
thou
canft
not fet
any
time
:
what
doff
thou know,
oh
Fool,
but
that
this night
thy
foal
may
bee
taken
away
from
thee
?
Thirdly, Yea and
further,
When
you
lay
fuch
a
thing to
pawia, you make
a
bargainfor the
bringing
of fomewhat
to
redeem it
that
you have in your own
power,
or
make
ac-
count that
you fhall have in
your
own
power to
bring,
you
will
not
make.
the bargain
to
bring
fuch
a
thing
that
you
are
fure
you
thall
not
have
in
your own power
:
Now,
when
you lay your fouls
to pawn,
you
lay them
to
pawn for that
that
you have
not
in
your power, nor all
the
creatures
in
Heaven and Earth cannot help
you
to
in
your
need
, and
that
is
Faith
and
Repentance
:
All
the
Angels
in Heaven,
nor
men in
the world cannot help
you
to
it
;
it
is
onely
in
the
hands
of
God,
of
the Infinite
bleffed
God,
againfl
whom,
you
fin,
and
horn you
provoke, and yet
how many do
thus
pawn their
fouls
?
and no marvel
though
men
lofe
their
fouls, becaufe
they pawn
them
thus
foolifhly
and wretched-
ly;
and
that
is
the fecond
way
of
mens
lofing
of
their
fouls.
Thirdly,
Men
lofe.
their
fouls
by
wounding them ,
they
give