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()tithe
Excellency
of
the
Soul.
for
ftrait
is
the
gate,
and
narrow
is
the way,
and
few there
bee
that
enter
:
And
upon that
ground Chritl himfelf
raifes
.
that
exhortation,
therefore flrive; therefore inquire
you af-
ter
the
way
of
falvation with all
your might;
ifthere
should
a
voice
come from
Heaven
at
dais
time, and
fay,
there
are
but
few
in
this
Congregation Ihall
go
out
alive,
it
would
put
every
one ro
a
Rand;
everyone
would
think
with
himfeif,
Oh
Lord
!
mufl
I
die
here
?
why
there
is
this voice
from
Heaven,
that
there
are
but
few fouls
in
the world but
thall
peerifh
eternally; then
certainly it
is
not
for
us
to
bee
quiet,
but
it
concerns us
to
bee
reliefs
in
our
conditions, and
e-
very one
to
fay, what; is
it
1
?
what,
is
it
I
?
when
Chriíi
did but
fay
that
one
of
you
thall betray
Mee, every
one
was
inquiring, Is it
_I
?
Is
it
I
?
but'
when`
it
is
faid
that
there
fha!l
bee but
few
Paved;
the flockof Chrifl
is
but s
lit-
tle
flock,,
the
words
in the
original are two diminutives,
and
may
be tranflated,
a
little little
flock;
Oh
it
concerns
you all
to look
about
you.
But
now thefe things
being-
preniifed
for
the
putting
of you on
to the enquiring
after
falvation
with
all
your
might
:
now
Wee
come to the answer
of
this
quef ion ,
What
wee should do
that
our
fouls may
bee
faved
?
And
in the
anfwer
to
this
wee
mull premife further.
Finfl,
There
is
nothing that
any
man
can do,
that
Eaves
him,
there mull
bee fomewhat
higher
that
what hee
can
do;
and
yet God requires
that
hee fhould do what hee
can
do;
Indeed
what
any man can
do
of
himfelf,
yea
or
by
af-
lierance
from
common grace, yea wee
fay further
,
by
aflïflance
from
any grace
whatfoever
,
though
it
may
help
forward
his
falvation,
by an ordinance
of God, yet it
can
-
not
-be
the
thing
that
faves him,
the
thing
that
faves him
is
higher
than what
is
done
by
the creature,
it
is;
what
is
done
by
Chrifl,
or
what
is
fathered
by
Chrifl,
it
is
that
that
faves
the foul, and
not, I
fay,
what
is
done
or
fuffered
by
us.
But
yet
now
wee mull
not
make fuch
a
vain, and
foolilh,
and dangerous inference,
that therefore
nothing
is
to
bee
done, beca,:fe the things
that
wee do
are
not the
things
that
fave