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on
the Excellency
of
the
Soul.
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give them
deadly
wounds,
upon
which
the
fouls
of
molt
do perish.
Quell.
Wounding,
how
you
will
fay
?
Anfw.
By
that
1
mean
the
commidion
of
fins
againll
con
-
fcience
;
to commit
a
known fin,
and
a
wilful
fin,
oh
this
gives
a
wide
galh
in
the foul,
a
molt
fearful wound; every
fin
againft confcience
gives
a
wound
that
requires
a
falve
to
heal
it,
that
is
more
worth
than
a
thoufand
worlds
;
the
fins
againll confcience,
againft
light, againll knowledge,they
are
deep
wounds
unto the
fouls
of men; and
it
is
not
ufual for
fuch
wounds
to
bee
healed,
for
they
do not
onely
Alike
at
the
life of
the foul,
but
they
harden
the heart
of the
finner
exceedingly, and
keep
off the. means
that
might
do
the
foul
good; thou goeft abroad
into company,
and
there
thou
committed
a
fin
againll thy confcience,
oh
thou
haft
given
a
gafh to
that
precious
foul
of thine, thou
haft
given
it
a
deep
wound, and except thou lookeft
to
it,
and
that prefenrly,
thy
foul perhaps
may
die
for
ever
!
A
man
that
hath
re-
ceived
a
deep wound, hee prefently
fends for
the Chyrur-
gion, and
if it
bleeds well,
hee
hopes
the cure
is more
hope-
ful
:
fo
when
thou
haft
committed
fin,
if
indeed
it
bleed
,
that is,
if
thy foul prefently
bee
fenfible
of
ir,
and
affefed
with
it,
and mourn and
lament, and
fo feek
after the Chy-
rurgion,
there
may
bee
hopes
;
but men and women
do
wound their own
fouls by
wilful
fins, fins agáinft
their
con-
fciences, and yet they are
not
fenfible
of
them,
they do
not
fo much
as
bleed,
but they
lye
in the
very
open
Air ,
as
ït were,
and
are not bound
up
at all,
Ah
!
thoufand
thoufands there
are
that
die
and
perifh this
way.
Fourthly,
And
then
a
fourth
fort there
are
that
lofe
their
fouls by being
gulled of them,
by
being
deceived
of
them;
Satan
perfwades
them
they
are in
a
good
condition
,
that
all
is
well with
them,
and they
need not
fear
,
what need they
to trouble
themfelves,thefe are
but the
melancholly thoughts
of
fuch
and
fuch
kind of people;
there
is
no fuch
great
mat-
ters
required in forrow for fin, and
it
is
but
a
Lord have
mer-
cy upon us,
and
but,
a
being in Chrift ,
and
hoping
in
M
m
2
Gods