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On
the
Excellency
of
the
Soul.
3°
3
bef&e
wee come
to
give any anfwer
, otherwife what do
you
hear
this
day,
if
there bee not
fuch a
heart
as
this,
that
you
can appeal
to
God;
and
profefs
that
whatfoever this
day the Lord
£hall
reveal
unto mee
from
his
Word
that
I
should
do
to
fave my
foul,
here
I
am, and
profefs
to
yeeld
my
felf
up
to
the
truths
of
God,if
your
hearts bee
fo
fram'd,
then
wee
may have incouragefnent
to
come
and
thew
you
what fhould bee done.
Fourthly,
And you
mua
inquire conflantly
too
;
if
you
should
not
bee fatisfied
at
one time, never bee
at
ref+
till
you are
fatisfied,
do
not
ask
what
I
should
do,
and come
to
hear what
you
fhould do,
and
then
pafsit
over, and
let e-
very
little
thing take
this out
of
your
minds again
but
when
you
begin to
bee inquiring after
the
way
of
falvation,
refolve
that
you
will never give
ref+
to
your
fouls,
till
you
have
gotten
this queflion anfwered
to
you.
-
--
And there
is
a
great deal of
reafon
that
wee
fhould
ask
this queflion
in
fuch
a
way.
For
Rear
Fir£.+,
Every one
of
your fouls
/are
in
a
loft
con-
dition naturally; therefore
it
concerns
you
to
bee
inquiring
after the way of falvation.
Secondly, The
falvation
of
a
foul
is
the
moll difficult
thing in the world;
if
ever,
thy
foul
bee
faved, it
mutt
coil
more than Heaven
and Earth
is
worth
to
fave
it
;
it
is
not
therefore
fuch a
trifling
bufinefs,
the
faving
of
fouls
:
This
I
dare
avouch,
as
in the
Name
of
God, that
the foul of
the
pooreft
girl or
fervant
that
is
here, if
it bee faved,
it
mutt
cod
more than Heaven
and Earth
is
worth to
fave
it; there
-
fore
there
is
a
difficulty
in it.
Thirdly
and laftly,
There
are
but
few
that
íhall
bee fav-
ed; there
is
nothing more
clear
in the
Word
of
God
than
that,
that
there
are but
few fouls
that
shall
bee faved; wee
cannot
tell
(as
I
have faid)
that
this or the
other
foul
can
-
not
bee
Paved;
wee are,
>not
to enter
into Gods counfels
concerning
particular
fouls, but this wee may fay, and have
N1aith; 7,
i3.
warrant
from
the
word
to
fay,
that
there
are
but
few fouls
cómpared
with
that.fhall
bee faved
:-
Strive
to
.
enter
in
at
the fi
urit
gate
,
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