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on
the Excellency
of
the Saul.
fafeft way for
falvation
?
now,
if it
bee
the
fafefi, if
you did
but
underfiaid the
infinite-confequence of
the
falvation
of
your fouls
, there need
bee
no
other
Argument
to per-
fwade
you
to
any firi6t
way of godlinefs, but
this
;
whatever
it
bee, whether abfolurely neceffary,
or
no,
I
amfure it
is
the
fafefi way; and
I
am
Pure
there
was
never yet
any
upon
his lack
-bed that did repent
him
that
bee was
too
aria
and
too precife, but
I
have known many
that
have
repented
them of being
too
bofe,
and
too
carelefs
:
Now
in
a mat-
ter that
is
of
great
confequence,
you will bee
lure
to
take
the fafell
way
:
If
there
bee
any
people in
the world
that
walk
fo as
your confciences
tell
you
they
are
in
a
more
firid
way
than
others,
more
holy,
more
dole
to
God,
more felf-
denying,
more faithful, it
doth
concern
you
to
inquire
af-
ter
thofe, and to walk
after thofe, and
joyn
with them
;
furely thofe
that
go on
in
the
fafe&
way
for
the
falvation
of
their
fouls,
thofe
I
will
make
a
pattern to
mee;
I
will
not
-Look
wh
atthe
common
coure
of
the world, and the gene
-
rality
of
the
world
Both
;
The
Scripture
tells
us
that
here
ape
.but
few
rhat'hail
bee
e
Paved;
And
therefore the
fewnefsof
men
(hall never difcourage mee;
bee
they
never
fo few
,..
bee
they
never
fo
mean,
If
I
am
perfwaded in
my
con-
fcience
it
is
thefafefi
way,
that
is
the
way
that I
will
walk
in,andfurely
;it
is
theway
for
the
foul
to
have
comfort
at
the
great
da y,when
it
fhail appear before
the
great
God
and
our
Saviour
Jefus
Chrifi,
I
befeech
you
confider
of
this,
if
you
were
all
now
to
appear
before Jefus
Chriíl,
to
have
your
e
ternal
eftates determined
of,
in
what mens
conditions
would
you with your
felves
to
he
in
?
if
it might
bee at
your
liberty,
andChrift.fhould
fay,now
I
am
to
.pats
the
fentence of
eter-
nity
upon you
for your
falvation
or
damnation;
now
what
kind
of
mens
efiates would
you
wifh your felves
to
be
in
?
who
would
you
rather
be
like
into
?
who would
you
venture
moll;
upon,
to
be
dealt withalt
according
as
your
confciences
do
think,
they
are moll like
to
bee
dealt
with
?
I
am
perfwa-
ded if
this
were the cafe,.
mofi
lode,
and prophane,
and
,ungodly
men, would run and
cling
unto
thofe.
that
now
they