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The
Ninth
S]:
AMO
N
®N
The
Excelles,cy
©f
the
Soul.
Matthew
16.26.
For
-wvhat
is
a
man profited `if
hee
(Ball
gain
the
whole
world,
and
lofe
his
own
foul
?
Queflion.
Ott will
fay ,
Ra
f
ed
down to
the
ground,
whet
ár
that?
Anfir.
By that
I
mean
this
'on
should bee willing
to
feek
to
God,
and
that earneflly,
that
hee
would
never let
you bee
at
quiet
in
any falfe hope,
be
earnefl
with
Gnd
in
prayer
:
O
Lord,
J
fee
that
the matter
of
my
fal-
vation,
is
a
matter of intlnite
confequence;
if
I fhould
mif-
take,
if I
Ihonld
mifcarry in
it,
it
had
been
better
for
mee
never
to
have
been
born;
O
Lord
!
therefore help
mee
it
this thing above
all, that I
may
never
reft my falvation
up-
on any
falfe hopes, that
fo
I may
not at
the
laic
bee
dif-
appointed
of my
tail hopes;
bee
earnefl
thus with God
,
and bee willing to
know
the worft of
your (elves; Lord, if
thou