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on
_
the Excellency
of
the
Soul.
x85.
with all'delicacies. Luther
I
remember
hee
hath an ex-
preflion
,
That
hee had
rather
bee
in Hell-with
'the
Word,
than
in Paradife without
the
Word.
Ninthly,
In
the
ninth place
there-
is
another fort
that
lofe their
fouls by
furfeiting
of them;
their
fouls do furfeit
with the cares
and pleafures
of this
life; they glut their
hearts with the
delights,
and pleafures,
and cares
of this
world, until their
fouls
get
a
furfeit and
die
of
them;
giv=
ing
liberty
unto their hearts
to
delight themfelves in all
outward
contentments, efpecially
if
they bee lawful
:
Now
a
man
or
woman
may furfeit their fouls,
and undo
them-
Lititù
perimus
felves
by
lawful things;
as a
man
may
not onely
deflroy
on,
his
life
by eating poifon, but
by
a
furfeit
of
good
meat
,
though
the
meat
bee
good
, yet hee may furfeit upon
it
:
fo,
though
the
things
of
this
world,
the cares, and the plea-
fures
maybee (
as fume
things are
) in
themfelves
lawful,
yet
by
an inordinate and immoderate
letting
out thy heart
tolawful
things, thou
mayea furfeit thy
foul; and
it
may
die
of
that
furfeit
: ?ylany
pen
think themfelves
out
of dan-
ger,
if the
things
that their hearts
are
upon;
bee
in
them-
felves
lawful,
they
are
not
fwearers, and whoretnafters
and
drunkards, and theeves,
as
others
are, and therefore
they
think
their
fouls may bee faved
:
I
fay, thou mayefl
bufie thy
heart onely
about
that
which
is
in
its
felf
lawful;
and yet thy
foul
may
take
a
furfeit and
perifh eternally.
Tenthly and laflly; Many
lofe
their
fouls
by forfeiting
them,
and
that
by
thefe
two
waits.-
Firfl,
A
man forfeits
his
foul,
as
men
do their
Coppy-
holds,
by
not tendering
that
homage
to their
Lord that is
due,
by which
they hold
their Lands,
and
fo
their Lands
come
to
bee forfeit;
fo
doll
thou
;
God
hath given
thee
thy precious foul, more worth
-than
all the
world,
and thou
holdefl
it
of God,
but
fo
as
thou muff
tender
up
to
this
Lord
that
homage that-is
due
to
him,
that
is,
thou
muff
worfhip
God When
wee
come
to
worfhip-
God,
this
is
that
wee
do,
wee come
to
tend
er
-up
that homage
that
wee acknowledge
to
bee
due
to
God
for thefe fouls
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