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On the
Excellency
of
the Soul.
(welling hearts, in
fuch
an outragious
way,
fwearing,
and fighting
,
and blafpheming,
and
fcorning, and
con-
temning
at
all
waies of godlinefs;
now there have
been
a-
broad,
and havegocten potion, and
fo
they
í1al1, and
are
ready to
burft with
it.
Now
there
are
other
kinds of poifon
that
will
not
work
till
a
quarter
or
half
a
year
after
:
A man
may
go into company
, and
get
his
bain,
and
yet not
work
till
a
quarter of
a
year after
:
As
I
remember
a
Philo-
fopher
feeing two women
that
were wicked,
talk
together,
Oh
!
faith hee, now
the
Viper
is
taking
of
poifon
from
the
Alp
,
and
indeed
it
feemed
to
bee
a
Proverb
in
Ter.
tullians
time
,
for
I
meet
with
fuch
a
proverbial
fpeech
in
him
,
as
that
the Viper
borrows poifon from the
Alp
:
fa when
wicked
company are
infufing
wicked
principles,
here
is
the poifon
gotten
from the
Afp
;
wicked
company
perhaps they come with
their
Tweet
cups
,
and
perhaps
thou drinkeft
down the
Wine
merrily
,
but together
with
the Wine,
wicked things are infufed
into
thy
fpirit
that
are poifonful:
When
thou
art
in
wicked company
and
'heareft
the
waies
of
God
fpoken againfl,
and hearell
the
`Saints
of God railed on,
and
the
good
Word
of
God
fpo-
"ken
againft
, and
this thou
drawefl into thy
heart,
oh
there
is
poifon goes down in this cup
;
it
is
like
to
poifon
thy
foul,
and
to
be thy undoing for
ever.
And then there
is
another
kind of
venome, and
that
is
'wicked errours and herefies, when
men
drink
off
the
Cup
of
Fornication
as
when they are
taken
with
the
great
er-
rours
of Popery
,
this poifons
the
foul
;
that
place
in
the
Theffalonians
is
a
molt dreadful
place, even
for that
very
errour,
2
Theffalonia
os
z.
r
1. Speaking
of
Antichr.
fl
,
that
hee
(hold
come
with all
deceìveable,efs
of
unriihteoufnefs
in
them
that
perifh
,
becaufe they
received
not the love
of
the
truth
,
that
they
might
bee
faved
;
and
for
this
cafe
God
(hall
fend
them
flrong
delufions,
that
they
fbould
beleeve
a
lye
that
they
all
might
bee
damned
who
beleeve
not
the
truth
,
but had
Eleafure
in
unrighteoufneffe.
This is
a
moll
dread-