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On
the
Excellency
of
the Soul.
ters
afterwards came upon him,
and put
him
to
extremity of
torments,
and fer
children
upon
him
to
rake his
flefh with
their
knives,
but at
length.,
they would bee
content
if
hee
would
but givenever
fo
little
for
the
building
up
of
the Idol
Temple
again,
to let
him
go
free,
No,
faith
hee
,
no: one
half-penny. Certainly
this
point will bee enough to
juflifie
any
that
fhall lofe
elate,
or"indure
any thing
in
the
world,
rather
than
do
any
thing
that
may
in
the
leafl
degree hazard
their
fouls:
And
fo
that
Martyrefs
Juletta,
when one accufed
Jer,
and faid,
that thee
was
a
Chrif}ian,
nay, then
faith
the
udge,
you
muff
not have
liberty
of
the
Law,
No,
faith
thee,
then farewel riches,
and
life,
and all
;
thee
would
bee fure
to
keep her foul
fafe, whatfoever became of all
o
:her
things.
The
fat+
life
is
an
tire
of
Incouragement
to
thole that
rather venture
all
in
the
waies
of
God,
than
to
hazard
their fouls;
thou
art
the
wife
Merchant,
that
art willing
to
fell all
for
the
Pearl, and blefs thy
felf in
God
for this
that
ever God bath put
this
into thy heart, to
look
to that
which
is
the main
chance,
as
wee
ufe
to
fay ;
If
God
had
left
thee
to
thy
felf,
thou
mightefl
have
gone on
in
fuch
waies
as
others do,
but canfl thou fay,
the
Lord
hath caufed
the
fear
of
himfelf, and the fear
of
eternity to
fall
upon my
foul, and
I
can appeal
to
him,
that
whatever
comes
of
mee
in
regard of outwards mee
thinks
I
can bee fatisfied,
fo
bee
it
all things
bee
well
with my
foul
;
I
fay, biefs
thy
felf
in God;
a
man
is näöl,to
praife
himfelf,
but in
God,that
is
thus,When
thou doff
c
iafider
how
God
hath drawn thy
heart
to
him, and
thy
interefl in
God, thou
mayefl
biefs
thy
felf
in God,
in
the grace
of
God, that
bath given
thee
a
heart ,
taken
offfrom
creature- comforts, dif-ingaged from
them
,
and
fer
upon the
things
that concern the
eternal
falvation of
thy
foul;
biefs thy
felf
in
God, and
bee
not troubled though
thou
beefl cut
fhort
in
the
things
of
this
world. One would
think
that that
which bath
been
faid
about
the vanity of the
things
of
this
world, fhould
make
people
that
are
croffed
in
them
(if
they bee
godly)
to bee fatisfied.
What if
thou
art
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