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on
the
Excellency
of
the Soul.
fo
fometimes
it
is
with the-foul when
it
bath loft
its-eviden-
ces
for
falvation,
it
may
get
new
in lefs
time,
and with
lefs
charge,
than
to
feek
out
the
old.
It
may
bee thou
lookeft to
fee
r\hether
thou haft
not
been
an Hypocrite all
this
while;,
or formal
:
Suppofe
upon examination thou
i
anll
not
finde
any
thing
to
fatisfie
thy
fout,
but that
it
bath been
fo,
yet
now,
what hinders
but that
thou_mayeft
this
initant
throw
thy
foul
upon
Jefus Chrift
?
I
but
I
am
afraid
that
when
I
have
-come
to Chrift,
I
have not ccme rightly.
-
--
I
but per-
haps
thou
mayeít
come
to
Chrift in
that time that
thou
mayeít
know
whether thou haft
come,
rightly,
yea or nay
:
-
-=
But
now
the
'beftway
for thofe that are
mightily
troubled
and folicitous about evidences whether
their -eftate
bee
r''ght
or
no,
I
fay,
l
-r
thole,
rather
than
fpend too
much
time
in difcouraging of
their
own
hearts begin
the
work
a-
,
cain;
let`fuch
a
one
prefent Jefus Chrift
now
as
a Saviour
for
loft
man,
whole grace
is
infinitely
full,
and
infinitely
free; and there
is
nothing hinders
thee but that
thou
mayeít
at this very
inftant
cart thy
feif
upon
him
to
bee thy
Saviour,
both
to
fave
thee
from tin, and from condemnation.
I
but
you will
fay,
I
may
prefume,
and who
hash
right
to do
any
fuch
thing
?
To that
I
anfwer
, that
there
is nothing can give
thee
right
to
Chrifl,
but
by
caftingthy foul upon him, by
bete*
ing
in
him,
that
right
that wee
have to
Chrtft,
it
is
by
beleeving
:
It
is
not
by any work
before beleeving
that
gives
thee
right
to
Jefus
ChriPt
:
So
that
by this you
fee
what
I
mean
by racing
down the
old foundation.
The
next
is,
by
laying
the
new
foundation
of
this
great
work
of
thy fálvation, and bee fore thou`lay
that
fare.
You
will
fay,layitfure,
what
is
it'?
Chrift
is
the foundation, No
otherfoundation
can
bee
lard
but
(brifit
himfelf; lay
it
there:
--- And
then
that
that
is
next
to
Chrift the foundation,
it
is
the
true
work
of
Faith,
and
the
true
work
of
Repentance;
the
true
work of
Faith
that
is
next, that
is
the
foundation of
what
is
wrought
in
our
hearts; Chrift
is
the
foundation
firlt, but of
any
work
in