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On
the
Excellency
of
the
Soul.
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rious
work
of God in
the
covenant
of
Grace,
in thofe great
counfels
of
God,
and
great
things
that
God
hath done for
the
falvation of mankind in Jefus Chrift,
that
foul
would
bee
loft,
if
it
fhonld
now go from
the
body, and
no
fur-
ther
work
of God upon
it
:
That
Scripture
that
divers
times
you
have
heard named,
is
proof
fufñcient
for it;
if
our
Gof-
pel
bee
hidden,
it
is
hidden
to
thole
that
are
loft, 2
Cor.
4.
3.
Now certainly,
my
brethren,
if
God hath revealed to
your
fouls the glorious
things
of
the Gofpel,
they cannot but
be
taking
things to you, they
cannot but
caufe much
firring,
much
aaivenefs,
mighty
workings
in your
fouls
:
when once
theglórious light
of
the Gofdel
comes
into
a
foul,
I
fay,
it
cannot but
caufe
mighty flirrings
and
workings
in
fuch a
foul.
When
I
fee
people fit
deadly and dully under
the
means
of Grace, under the
preaching
of
the glorious things
of the
Gofpel,
I
cannot
but
think with
mm
fell,
Lord
,
co
thefe people
know
what
Jefus
Chrift
is
?
and
underfand
what
the
great
things
are
that God
hath done for
the fal-
vation
of
man-
kind?
certainly did they
but
know
the
wonderful and
frange
works
of
God about the falvation
of
the
fouls
of
the
children
of
men,
their hearts could
not
but
flit within
them, and
work
in
another manner than yet
they
have
done.
Fourthly,
That
foul
that hath
no
other righteoufnefs to
tender
up
unto God but its
own righteoufnefs,
if
now
it
fhould depart,would bee
loft eternally
:
Whatever man
or woman
it
bee
that
have
lived
the
moil unblameable
in
his
life
and conveffation,
that
hath
been
the
mot
righte-
ous,
that
no
man could bee
able
to
blame
him for any
thing,
yet
I
fay,
if
this
man
or
woman
bath no
other righte-
oufnefs
to
tender
up
unto God but
his
own,
certainly this
foul
would
bee
a
loll
foul
for
ever;
the
truth is, even
the
foul
of Abraham, 'face,
and
Jacob, the
fouls
of
all
the
Pa-
triarchs,
Prophets, Apofles, Martyrs,
all
of them would
bee loft
eternally,
bad they no other
righteoufnefs
to
ten-
der
up to
God but their
own, much
more thofe will have
only
a
Civil righteoufnefs
and a
meet
natural
righteoufnefs,
O
o
fuch
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