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on
the
Excclleatcy of
the
Soul.
3
3
9
they
fcorn
and
contemn; unto
thofe
that
walk with the
moll
Clri;;ìnefs
and
holin.fs
in
their
converfations:
Certainly
if
you
woulddo
fo
rh:;,
it
is
your wifdome
to
do fo Now;
that
which
wit
bee
true then, certainly
is
true
now
;
and
therefore
chat
is
a
good way
for the
helping
to
fave your
fouls,
to
joyn
with
chofe
that
walk in the
flri
eft
and the
holiell way,
to
do
that
now,
that if
you
were
to die,
you
would with
you
had
done; and to
bee with
them
now,
that
if
you
were
to
have the
fentence of eternity pall
upon you,
you would
with
you
had been withall. But
this
shall
fuffice
for what
is
to
bee laid
concerning
that
grew_
Queftion, about
the
preventing
the lofs
of
our fouls,
and
what
wee should
do to bee
Paved
:
-
-
=-
Now
for
the
conclufxon
;
you
have
heard divers things
already
, about the way, and dire (lion
for
the
Paving
of
fouls
;
I fuppofe when
firft
the Queftion
was
railed,
every
one
of
you
would bee
greedy
to
hear an
anfwer
;
There
was
never
a
one in this place
but
would
fain
have
his
foul faved
eternally;
what
do you
mean to
do
now
?
what
are your
thoughts
?
there bath been
a
quetlion,
and
I have indeavoured
in
the
Name
of God to
anfwer
it
;
Now
this is
that that
I
delve of
you
even
before
you
fleep,
get
into
the
prefence
of God
alone , and give
in
your
an-
fwer
to
God,
what
you
mean to do,
are
you
refolved upon
it
?
will
you engage
your
fouls now
to
God
(
this
evening)
that that
little
time that
hee will
let
you
live
in this world
,
that
your
indeavours
(hall
bee
according
to
thofe particu-
lars that
have
been opened
unto
you
?
Oh bleffed bee
God
if
this bee
but in
any one foul
;
but
can any
one think
that
among
fuch
a
multitude
as
this
is, but
that
the Lord would
bee pleafed to
dart
Tome
thing
or
other into one
or
more.
Let
mee conclude at this
time,
as
the
fervant
of Naaman
laid to him,
when the
Prophet
gave
him dire,Slion
what
hee
fhould
do
to
bee
cleanfed,
hee
began
to bee
angry
,
and
was
loath
to
do what
the Prophet
bid him; why
(
faith
his
fer-
vant
to him) My
Father,
if
the
Prophet
had bid
thee
dofonee
great
thing,
wouldefl
thou
not
have
done
it
?
how
much
ra-
Cher
then
when bee
faith
to
thee,
wafh
and
bee
clean?
So
I
fay
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