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On
the
Excellency
of
the
Soul.
heart,
and cries
to God,
Lord, what
wilt thou have
metro
do
?
I,
hee
was
in
a
good way
of falvation;
and
fo
when
-a
vile
firmer
that
bath gone on
without the
fear
of.
God-, upon.
him,
.fhailnow
come in
trembling, beholding
the
dread-
fulnefs
of the Infinite God, that eternal
firfl-
beeing
that
it
bath
to
deal withall,
and now
steal!
have
his
fear
firike into
it,
this foul
is
in
a
good way
of falvation,
is
is:
-f
}opt
in
th
way
of dethruaion ,
and it
is
in
a
good way of falvation;
and
that
is
very obfervable further
in
the
Text,
Work
out
,our,
own
fe?lvatton
w
'h
fear
and
trembling, for
,it.is.God
that
works in
7-ou.
That
is a
place
that
many people
grofly a-
bufe, they
thinkthey
need
do
nothing; but.markhow .bold-
ly do
thefe
people
crofs.the Spirit
of God. in the
Text,-
for
the
Spirit
of
God
makes this Argument,-
do
you work
out
your
falvation,
becaufe God.works,
and
fay
they,,
It
mull
bee
God
that
works, and.
therefore
I
will do
nothing;
Ohl
if
you
Mould wilfully
'go
on in
waits
of
provocation to
God,
and upon
your
fick
-bed, and
death-bed, cry,
Oh
Lord
!
that
now thou wouldeh. bee
pleafed to
work upon.
my foul,
as
thou
ufefl
to
work upon
thofe that thou intendefl
to
fave;
If
God fhould
make this anfwer,.Thou
.a
bold
wretch,that ball,
provok'd the
eyes
of
my glory all
thy,
daies, and dofh
thou.
now cry
to
mee
to
do
it
?
If
any
of
you
do,
think
that
there
will ever bee
a
time
when
you
will
hand
in need of Gods
mercy.
to
fave your fouls, you
had
need
walk with fear and'
trembling
before.this God,;
Now I
put
this
to
the foul of
every one
here,
doll
thou
not.think,
0
thou
finful
foul, that
there
will bee
a
time
that
thou
fhalt
hand. in
.need of.
the
mercy of
God?
and what courfe
doll
thou take now
before-
hand
?
is
that
courfe
that
thou
takeil
before
-hand
a
continu-
al
provocation of God
?
is
that
.a
good.
preparationto
that
time
?
.
if
there were
a
man
that
you
lived neer,
though for
the
prefent
you
care
not
for
him,
but
flighted
him,
yet
if
,
you
Knew
than
there would
bee
a
time that
you
mull
Rand
in
need of
that
man,
fo
at
if
hee
should
forfake
you,
you
would bee
a
loll
man
,
would
you dare
to
provoke
that,
man
?
wee
all
know what
need
wee
Dull
have
of the
mer-
cy;