295 / 1054
On
the
Excellency
ef
the
Soul.
295
weir
a.
young
man,
thou
wert
wanton,
or
unclean,
and
pro
-
phane,
and abroad
in the fields,
and in wicked houles
on
the Lords.day,
I
but
now thou
haft
more wifdome and
un-
deritanding,
and now thou
dolt
no fo, this
is
well, and
good,
and
this
is
to
bee encouraged
;
I
but what
is
this
to
fuch
a
mighty change
auto bee
born- again
?
If
fo
bee,
that
your
bodies had no other kind
of
foul
than that that
is
o`
fence, and:afterwards
a
rational
fóul (-could
be
put into
it,
what a
mighty
change would
there
bee in
that
bo
ay. ?
before they could onely fee, and hear, and
feel,
but
now
having
a
rational foul, they can
underaand, unde'Rand
reafon, underftand
the
wales
of
inzn;
this
is
amighry
change,
and
truly,
there
is
as
mighty
a
change
when
God
purl
a
new
life
into
the
foul,
and
.dorh
regenerate
it,
making
it
partaker
of
the
divine
Nature,
and even
to
come to
live the
life
of
God,
according
as
the
Scripture
phrafe
is
:
Now this
mutt
bee,
in
every foul
that mull
bee faved, and
if the time
bee
not
come,
that
this
regeneration
is
wrought,
then cer-
tainly
thy
foul
is
yet in a perifling-
condition,
God'
knows
onely what hee doth intend to do
hereafter,
but for
the
prefent,
thyfoul,.
I
fay,
is
in
a
pei
ping
condition
:
The
firft work
thatGod
made
(that
is,
the work
of Creation )
by fin
was
quite fpoiled; Now Jefus Chrift
the
Son
of
God;
.
that
is his
honour
andhis
work
to
rear
up
a
new wo''ld,
and
that
is a
better
world
a
great-
deal
thane
the
former
avoid
was;
and the
fpecial
creatures
of
this
avoid
they
are
his
Saints, and the new
Creation
in
their
hearts
now
this
is
the condition
of_a
converted foul,
it
is
made
a
new
Crea-
ture, All
oldthángs are
done
away: Thou that,
liven in thine
z
Car,
5,.i
old
wales
;'
afsd`lrtalcoaether for
-
thine old'cìrftómes,
and'
what
fha't
thou
do.
contrary:now
to
what
thy
Fo -e-
fathers
did,
and
thou
thyfelf
haft
do
le
all-thy
life time
?
and
the
like;
oh
this
is
a
dangerous
kind
of
°re-
afoning
1
why,
thou
mull
bee anew Creature, and
all
thingr
are
to become
New'
in
-
thy
foul; thou
itiuf}1tnow,
that-the
Old
Man
is
dead
;
n
thee,
and that the
NeW-
Creiature
is
reared
up in
thee,
or ,,elfe
thou
canfl
not
kiao*
..
that
if' thy
-foul. ih-oui
,
this
nrghc
depart,
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