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on
the Excellency
of
the Soul.
to
you; confidering what
the
worth
of
your fouls
is,
and the
danger
there
is
of
your
eternal
mifcarrying , how
if
God
should
have
raid
this
,
That
fo your fouls
may bee
Caved,
I
require
of
every one
of
you
that
you fLould for forty,
fifty
years lie
as
a
head-block
at
the
fire
burning;
I,
and
if
God
fhould
have faid thus
unit:, us
from Heaven , wee had
all
caufe
to
have
fallen
upon our faces, and
have bleffed
God
for
his
mercy
towards
us;
but
now
God
doth
not
require
any
fuch
thing
as
this
at
your
hands,
but requires the abandon-
ing
of
your
lufts, and
the
attending
upon
him
in
his
Ordi,
nances; and hee
requires
the
keeping of
your
fouls under
his
Word
and Confcience,
and the
followin.
of the
motions
of
his
Spirit,
and
the
beleeving
in
his Son; fuch things
as
thefe the Lord requires, upon
which your fouls
may
eternally
bee
faved;
and will
not
you
accept
?
well, that
foul that
God
intends
to
fave, hee will
perfwade, and
the Lord per-
fwade your fouls in thefe things,
that
fo you
may bee
faved
in the
day of
our Lord
Jefus
Chrifi.
The
.
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