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aoz
On-
the
Excellency
of
the
Soul.
do
to
bee
faved,
and wee
have
had great hopes of
young
people;
but
here
is
the
policy
of the Devil,
when the
Lord
was bringing the
greatell
harvetl
of
young people
within
this
three
or four
years
to
himfelf,
as
ever was,
i
think, time
the beginning
of the world, and the Devil
knowing
that
bee
could
nor
get them
to
turn to
lewdnefs and prophanenefs
prefently again,
therefore
hee
labours to
put
them
upon
turning
all
their Religion
intoquettions about
controverfal
things,
which
they
could not
be
able
to
mannage and under-
(land, and
fo
puts
them olpthe
thoughts
of
that
great
quefli-
on,
FI
hat
they
'hook!
do to
bee
faved
?
But
O
labour
to
inquire,
and
to
bee fatisfied
and refolved in
that quetlion
betimes.
Secondly,
If
you
ask this
quetlion,
as you
are to do
it
betimes,
fo
do
it
earnefily,
do
it
with
a
great deal
of
fer-
vency
of fpirit,
as
a
matter of
infinite
concernment;
fo
in
Iatth,
lo.
t
7.
When hee
wasgone
forth
into
the
way,
there
came
one
running,
and
kneeled to
him, and
asked
him
,
good
z7"lafler,
what
(hall
I
do
that
I
may inherit eternal
life
?
Flee
came running
with
a
great
deal
of
fervency and
earnetlnefs
about
the
bufinefs; and
the
fervency
that
youth hath thould
bee
manifefled
in
this, in being
carnal
in
the inquiring
af-
ter
the
way
of falvation;
people
that
are
elder,
they
think
they
are
well
enough,
and
they have
not lived
fo
long,
they
think,
as
not to
know how
to
bee faved
all
this
While, and
therefore will
not
enquire;
fo
that their
fpirrts do
not
boil
with
that
fervency and heat
as
young ones do
hee
came
`running
to Chritl.
Thirdly,
If
you
do
inquire, inquire fincerely
,
with
a
heart truly
willing
to
do
wh
atfoever
-God
(hall
make
known
to
you
;
wee
are
this day about this
great
quetlion,
what
a
man thould
do
to
fave
his
foul
?
I
fuppofe many of
you
would
bee
glad
to
know
what fhould
bee done,
and mee-
thinks every one
is
ready to
ask filch a
quetlion as
this
is
:
But before
wee come
to
anfwer
it,
let
mee
fpeak
to
you
as
in the
Name
of God,
do
you
delire
to
know
it
with
a
heart
truly
willing
to
yeeld
to
whatfoever
thould
out
of
Gods
Word
bee
revealed
to
you
?
'put
this
to
your own hearts
before