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On
the Excellency
of
the
Sorel.
2
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fpeaks,
all of
their
fouls
were loft
for
ever,
and
yet
I fay,
they went
thus
far;
Now
it
concerns
us
very nearly
to
look
to
our felves
, and
not
to
think wee are
fife
upon
every
ileight
apprehenfion
;
if
the
Scripture holds
forth
fuch
ex-
amples
that went
thus
far,
and
yet
were
loft,
vvee
had
need
bee
careful
to
examine
our
Elate.
-
--
To
what
end
do
you
think
Both
God fet 'devvn thefe
examples of vvicked
men
,
vvhofe fouls
vvere
loll, and
fhevv
you hovv much
good
they
did?
certainly this
'vvas
Gods end,
that
men
and
women
might not flatter
themfelves
with
every
little
good
thing
that
they
do,
but
that
they fhould bee
ferious
and very fo-
licitous in
the examination
of
the eflate
of their
fouls,
how
the
terms
are
between
God
and them;
this vvas Gods
end
in it,
and this
being
Gods
end,
wee
are
to
make
the
ufe
of
it
that
God did aim
at in
holding forth thefe things
in
his
Word
unto
us
:
oh
therefore
do
not
fatisfie your
felves
with
a
little ,
do
not
fay
,
if
I
fhould
now
die
this night.,
and no further
work
wrought, yet
I
hope
the
work
is fo
far
wrought,
that
my foul
will
not
bee
loft.
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