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On
the Excellency
of
thé.
Soul.
Rïinr.
14
S.
but
here
is
the
great
queftion
,
Men
and
Brethren, what
fha11
I
do to
bee
faved?
And
if
people when they
meet
together
would bee taken
up,
and
bee
asking
of
this
queflion one
of
ano
:her,
it
would prevent
a
great
many wrangling
and
jangling queftions,
that men
fpend their time
in
;
oh when
they are
asking
of
you
many
fuch
vain queftions,
anfwer
thofe vain
quetlions
but
thus
,
I
but do
you know how
mie
may do
to
be
faved
?
tell
mee fomething of the
way
of God
about
the
falvation of
my
foul
;
and that-is
that, that
both
Ministers
and Chriftians fhould moll
aim
at,
to
help one
a-
nother
in
;
they fhould
not
fill
peoples heads
with
curious
quefiìons, and fpecially
young
ones, for
that
is
a
great
de-
ceit of the
Devil
at
this day
:
There
was
never
a
time
where-
in there
was
a,
more
hopeful harveft
of
young ones,
than
there
was
two
or
three
years
time in
England, and in
this
City, and
becaufe the Devil taw
it
was
in vain
to
tempt
their hearts
to
their
former prophanenefs, hee
labours
by
all means
to
caufe
them
to
fall
-into
the
hands
of
vain
jang-
ling people,
that
(hall
fill
their
heads
with
a
great
many
curious
quefttons about controvetlìes,and things
that
they:do
not underhand,
and
fo
take
.
away
the very ilrength
and
life of
the
work
of the
Word
upon
them,
when
as
the
Scrip-
ture
tells
us
plainly,
that
wee tnuft:not receive the weak
in
Faith
unto doubtful
difputations. But
-
Obje
&.
Tau willtay,
wee
muft inquire after
all truths,
Anfw.-
It
is
true, but
feafonably,
_in
their
due time;
It
is
not
for young
converts,
before they
bee.fetled
in the
main
things
of
Religion, to
have
their
heads
filled
with doubtful
difputations;
it
is
the
plain Scripture,
and
it
is
ass
plain
,
if
wee would
underfland it
as
Thou (halt
not
Real,
or-
commit
adultery; oh this bath
hindered the falvation
.of many
a
foul
!
Now
therefore
this
is
that
that
I would aim
at,
to turn
the firength
of
your fouls
into
this
great queftion, what
(hall
wee,
do
to bee
faved
?
in
Ecclefiaftes
7.-
faith
the
wife
,man
there
, God
bath mademan upright,
but
bee
bath found
to
hinofelf
many
inventions, fo
your
books
have it , but
I
finde
it,tranflated
in the
old Baton
,
Tee:
bath
,mingled
bienfelf
with