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On
the
Excellency
of
the
Soul.
365
great
fumme'of mony
,
If
his
friends come
to
know
that
hee
doth
not
prize
what bee hath
loft, will
any
friend bee
fo
mad
as
to lay down
five
hundred
pound to
redeem that
for
his
friend
which
hee
knows
aforehand
that
hee
doth not
prize at
twelve
pence
?
So,
canft thou think that
that
foul
of
thine
that
thou
prize(}
at
nothing, that the Infinite God
fhould
lay down
fuch
a
price
CO
redeem
it?
Thirdly, From
the
confideration of the
comparifon
of
the
gain of the world,
to the
lofs
of
the
foul;
It
is
a
Ufe
of
exhortation,
To
teach
us
to anfwer
all
temptations , or
to
work this upon our
hearts,
the
anfwering of all
temptations
to
any way
of
fin,
To
anfwer
all
with this,
you
offer mee
too
little,
whatfoever
you
can
offer
mee
, to
draw mee
to
think
well
of
fin,
certainly
it
is
too
little,
for it indangers
my
foul
;
the
thorow underfianding
of
this
point,
and
the
working of
it
upon
the
heart
,
is
a
very
great
help againft
whatfoever
temptation
should come
to draw thee to
fin.
Surely,
If
thefe things
bee
fo,
then this can
bee no Argu-
ment
for mee
to
neglect
any
duty
that
God calls
for at
my
hands,
or
to
venture
upon
any way
that
my
confcience
tells
mee
is fin
Oh but
if
I
do thus,
it
will
indanger
my a
{late,
but
if I
do fuch
a
thing
I
fhall get
fo
much by
it
:
Certainly
there can bee no ftrength in
this,
if
what bath been
fpoken
out
of
th's Text
bee
true.
But now when there comes
a
temptation
and prevails over
thee
,
thou doll deny
this
Scripture to bee
the
Word
of
God,
and thou fetteR
thy
judgement
againil the
truth of
God; but
now confider
with
thy
felt
which is like
to
{land, know,
that
God
will make
his
Word
Rand, hee
will make
it
good, when thou
and
a
thoufand
thoufand
fuch
as
thou
art
shall perifh for
ever; and
therefore,
as
you
that
are
chapmen,
when
men
offer
You
lefs
than
your
ware
is
worth,
you
fcorn and contemn them
;
fò you
fhould
do when
temptation
offers
you lefs
than
your
foul
is
worth.
Wee
read of
Sail,
when hee
faw
the people
following
David,
faith
bee, What
can the
fon
of
jefe
do
for.
you
?
hee
give
yen
Clive-yards
and
Vine
yards,
and
the
like
?
SQ
when
temptation
to
fin
comes,
ask
it,
what_
can
yowl