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On
the Excellency
of
the
Soul.
3
37
into
his refl
:
So
when the
Spirit
or
God
begins to bring
then
near to falvation,
that
it may
bee faid
of thee
,
as
Chrift
to
the
young
man,
Thou
art
rot
far
from
the
Kingdo
ne
of
.leaven
,
O
take heed of hearkening
to temptation
,
left
the Lord
fwear
that
thou
(halt
never enter
into
Heaven.
The Spirit
of
God,
which
is
like
unto
the
Dove
in
the
Ark
,
perhaps
it
comes
into
thy
heart
once, and it
comes
in
again,
and thou fendeft it
our
again,
but
take heed
of fending
it
out
the third time, left it fhould never
come
in to thee
again;
but that the Lord fhould
fay, Spirit,
never
firive
more
with
Gen.
6.3
.
fuch
a
foul
:
Oh when
God
begins
to
air,
it
doth
concern
you, to
fay
with Samuel,
Lord, fpeak, for
thy
fervant
hears.
You that have
been
forward
heretofore, and
have loft
the
work
of
Gods
Spirit,
you had
need
look about you, for
iris
a
dangerous thing
to
draw
back;
My
foul,
faith
God,
fhall have
Heb.
to.
3
8,
no
pleafore
in
thole
that
fhall
draw bark; And
if
the
foul
of God
will have no
pleafure in thee,
how
(hall
thy
foul
bee
faved
?
Twelfthly,
Whofoever would have
their fouls
Eyed,
let
them take this
courfe, account
the
precioufnefs
of
the time
of
your lives
to
confi
t
in
this,.
that
it
is
a
day
of
falvation
;
account
it
therefore
a
mercy
of God
that
your lives are
con-
tinued
upon this
reafon,
not
becaufe you may
get great
e-
ftares, and
live
and have
your
pieafures
and
delights ,
but
becaufe
God bath appointed the time
of
mans life here in
this world, to
bee
the
time
to
provide for
his
eternity;
few
men
and women in
the world
know
how
to
judge
aright
of
the
precioufnefs
of
their
time,
the
time
of
their lives;
amid
that
man
or
woman that comes
to
know aright how
to
judge
of
the
precioufnefs
of
this
time
of
life, and
of
what
doth
depend
upon
it
,
fuch
a one
is in
a
good forwardnefs
to
falvation.
Thirteenthly,
The !aft thin('
that
I
(halt
Name
is
this,
bee
lure
to
go
with thofe
that
go
in
the
fafeft
way, and
rh:
ilraighteftway;many
of you;you
queftion about many things
that
others
do,),vhether
they
need
do
fo
or
no;_why
can none
bee favedbut thofe
that
do
fo
?
but
I
appeal to
your confci-
ences, do
not
you
think
the
ftricteft way
of
godltnefs
is
the
V
v
fafe(t