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oit
the
Excelle
#cy
of
the
semi.
Secondly,
They
could
not
fay
thus, That they
did
prize
Jefus Chrift for
a Sane}ifier,
as
well
as
a Saviour
:
None
of
them
did look
upon Jefus ChriR,
that
hee
might deliver
their
fouls from
the
power
of
their
fin
,
and
work
righteoufnefs
in
them,
as
well
as
deliverthem
from
the
wrath
that
is
to
come.
Therefore
though fome
of
them would bee
glad
to
bee
faved
from hell
by
ChriR,
yetto
look
upon
Chrif+
in
regard
of
his
purity and holinefs,
as
altogether lovely,
this
none of them
could
do.
Thirdly and
tally,
None of them did
lift
up
God
as
the
higheR
end
of all,
and
give up
themfelves, and
all
that
they
had,
or
were,
or could
do,
being empty
of
themfelves,
fo
as
to
lift
up
God
as
revealed
in
Chriti
as
the
higheR
end,
fo
as
God
and
Chrift to
bee
all
in
all to
their
fouls;
they
went not
thus far
:
And therefore do
not think
that it
is
a
putting people
to great
Rreights,
to
tell
them
how
far
ma-
ny
went,
whole
fouls
were loft,
and
if
they went no
further,
their
fouls
would likewife bee
eternally
loti.
-
--
Now
then,
thefe things being
fo,
what remains,
but that
you
fhould lay
them to
your hearts
?
Oh
lay
them to
your
hearts,
and
if
God
would
but bee pleafed
this
evening
to
caufe
every
one
in
this
Congregation
to
examine themfelves, and call their
fouls
into queftion,
O
my
foul,
how
is
it
with
thee
?
how
do
things Rand
between
God
and thee
?
art
thou
in
fuch
an
c-
line,
as
if God
fhould call forthee out of the body
this
mo-
ment, that thou
fhouldeR
bee
faved
?
Oh
bee
not
fatisfied
in'
any
thing
in the
world, till
you
come to
a refolution
in
thefe
things; And
if
you
finde that thefe
things fpeak
'a-
gainR
you,
and your
fouls
bee
cat+
by
them
for the
prefent,
do
not fleightthem,
for
verily God will
make
them
good
up-
on thee, thefe
things
thall
Rand when thy
foul
(hall
pe-
rifh.
Wherefore
then
this
is
the
lat.}
ufe about this
point
of
Ufe.
the
dreadfullofs
of the foul;
Oh
then
let
every man
or'wo-
man propound
this
queftion, What (hall
I
then
do to
bee
fay-
Aft.
i
6.
3'.
ed
?
The world
is
troubled
with
a
great many
quefions at
this
day,
quelbonsthat
have
no
great
necefiity
in
them;
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