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On
the Excellency
of
the
Soul.
3
oaf
them)
when
the
foul takes
notice
how
God
comes in
with power upon
it,
and beleeves,
that
now farely the
Lord
intends falvation to mee,
th3.
Lord
bath
laid
fuch
a
ground-
work
upon
my
foul,
as
I
dare venture
all upon
ir,
and now
I
have caufe
to
hope
that
the
hazard of
mifcarrying
to
all
eternity
is
over, O
this
is
that that
is
the
joy
of
the Holy
Ghoft,
joy uxfpeakZable
and glorious, when
the
foul upongood
grounds
can
have hopes
that the hazard of
its
mifcarrying to
all eternity
is
over; now,
My
foul
return
unto thy
reft, faith
Pfal.
t6:
Z,
fuch
a
one
;
fo
that
that
is
the next thing, the
rafing
down
of
the old, and raifing up the new
foundaticn.
Ninthly,
If
thou wouldeR have thy foul
faved,
thou
muff keep
thy
foul
under
the authority
of
the
Word,
and
maintain the authority of
the
Word,
and
the
authority
of
confcience
over
thee; this
is
the way, if thou meaneR
to
mo
in Gods way for
falvation.
Fit+,
For the
Word; The
foul
that
God intends
to
fave,
hee
loth
reveal
unto
it
a
dreadful authority
that
there
is
in
this
Book
of
God;
this
is
that
word, faith
God
to the
foul,
wherein
I
have
revealed
my
mind to the children of men
:
Thofe counfels
of
my will
that concern the eternal
good of
the
children of men
are
in this
book, and all your fouls are
to
be
cafe by
this book, by
this
word,
for eternity
:
Now this
being revealed to the foul,
the
foul,
Rands
in awe
of
this
word,
and
trembles at this word, fears
the
authority
of
it,
looks upon every
threatning in
the
Word,
every command
in
the Word
,
every promtfe
in
the Word ,
as
having
a
divine authority
Ramps
upon
it,
fees
the
broad
Seal
of
Heaven flampt
upon every thing
in
this Book,
and dares
not
wilfully
tranfgrefs againR
any
thing in the
Word,
and
fo
continues in
keeping
its
felf under
the dreadful
authority
of
the
Word;
and
that
foul
is
in
a
good forwardnefs
to
bee fa-
ved,
that
is kept under
the
dreadful authority of Gods
Word,
in
the confiant courfe of
it
:
Now
I
appeal
to
you,
you
would
fain
have your
fouls Paved,
bur
can
you fay thus?
Indeed I
have
many
fins,
yet
God knows,
(
that
knows all
things)
that
my foul
it
is
kept under the dreadful
authority
of
T
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his