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On
the Excellency
of
the Soul.
known no more
to them
than
hee
hash,
fuch
a
foul would
bee loft, and
that
upon this
ground,
becaufe
that
without
Faith
it mutt
bee loft,
that
is
acknowledged
by
all;
hee
that
beleeves
not
í1u11
bee
damned,
is
condemned
already.
Now,
there
cannot
bee Faith
in
a
Saviour to fave the foul,
but
it
mutt
needs
imply
that
I
know what
a
dangerous
con-
dition
I
am in
by
fin.
For there
is.
even
a
contradi
&ion im-
plied
in
my
beleeving
in
Chrift ,
as
a
Saviour
,
-and
yet
CI
not convinced
of
the
damnable condition that
I
am in with-
out
this
Chrift.
Secondly,
That foul
that yet
hash
not made
it
to
bee
its great care,
above
all outward
things in this
world,
to:fave
its felf,
that
foul,
if
it
fhould
now
depart from the
body;
would
bee
loft.:
I
fay,
if
God
bath
not
firft
convinc'd
thee,
and
made thee
fenfible
of that damnable
condition
in
which thou
art in thy
felt,
and
_fecondly
if
hee
bath
not
taken off thy heart from the
creature, from
the
things
that
are here
below, and made
it
to bee the
great
care of
thy foul,
for
to
get it to bee
faved, bath
not made
thee
to
bee
folicitous about
the
work
of
faxing
of
thy
foul
fuúh
a
foul
as
this is,
I
fay,
if
it
fhould
now
depart,
would bee
loft,
for
God
doth not
fave fouls, but
by
manifefting
him
-
felf
to
them;
hee would have all
to
workout
their
falvation
with
fear
and trembling.
Certainly
,
though the principle
of
our
falvation
bee without
us,
yet
the
Lord
that
made
us
without
our felves, will
never
fave us
without
our
felves;
whofoever
God
doth fave, hee doth make
them
folicitous
and
careful
about
the
work of the
falvation of their
fouls:
Now, if
thy confcience
tells
thee
that
to
this day thy
care
bath
been about many
vanities,
but
as
for having thy
heart
taken
up with the faving
thy
foul,
thou
knoweft not
what
belongs to
this;
I
fay,
if God fhould
work
no more
in thee,
than
hee hath done ,
if
thou
fhouldef}
now
die,
thou
wouldeft
bee
loft.
Thirdly, That
foul
to
whom
the
Lord
hath not
revealed
the
glory of the
myfteries of
the
Gofpel
,
that
.yet
hath
the
:.Gofpel
kept
hidden
from it,
that
doth
not
fee Into
the
glo-
rious