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On
the Excellency
of
the Soul.
t'
depart,
but that
thou
fhouldeft bee an undone Creature
for
ever.
Yea,
Shall
I yet
fay
further,
becaufe
it
is
a
point
of a
wonderful confequence for men
and
vvomen
to
put
them-
felves
to it
;
I
fear that there is
many
men and
vvomen
here
,
that yet
all
their lives
time
have not
put
this
que
flion
to
themfelves ,
What
are the rearms betvveen,
God
and
mee
?
why, I
hope
that
God
.vvill vvork grace
in
mee;
I
but
vvhat
hath God
done
?
is
it
fo
vvrought_
at
this
prefent, that if
I
were this moment
to
die,
I
were
in
a
fate condition , and the hazard
of
my
mifcarrying to
all
eternity
were over
?A
man
may
joyfully
go
thorow
all
condi-
tions
in
this world,
if
hee were able
to
fay,
well
,
vvhat-
ever befall mee
in
this
world , yet my condition
is
filch,
that
I
know
the hazard of
my
mifcarrying for
ever,
blef-
fe®t
bee God
that
is
over
:
Oh
that
people would but
put
this queftion
to
themfelves,
In
what
eflate
am
I
now
in, if I
were
to
die
this
inflan
?
Ninthly,
Wherefore
then
another thing
is
this',
That
foul
that
yet bath
not
gone beyond
thofe
that the
Scrip-
ture
doth brand and
note
for Hypocrites,
or
Reprobates,
if thou
haft yet no more
wrought
in
thee than the
Scrip-
ture
thews
that
they had, then certainly
if
thou
fhouldeft
now
die,
thou
muff
needs perifh,
As
now, the
Scrip-
ture
holds
forth
thee
examples.
Pharaoh confelling
his
fins, The Lord
le
Righteous
,
faith
Pharaoh, and
1 havefumed.
Saul,
I.
havefinned
againft
the
Lord.
Ahab, Ilee
humbled
himfelf infackcloath, and
went
foft
ly,
when
the Prophet
threatned
Gods anger againfl
him.
The
Scripture tells
you
of
the
flog
-ground
.,
which
re-
ceived
the
word
with
joy.
Of
Herod,
That
hee
heard
John Raptifl
gladly
,
and
re-
formed
many
things.
Of
Judas,
Flee
came
and acknowledged
his fin., and
brought again
the
thirty peeces that.hee
had gotten
by
it
and caft
it
down
:
yet
there of
which
the
Scripture
thus
fpeaks,