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0ti
the
Excellency of
the
Sold.
4
art plundered of
all
,
and
haft
little
provifion
for
thy
fami-
ly
, and nail bread
for
one
day, and
knotveft
not
where
to
get
bread
for the next
?
I
but
is thy foul
fafe
?
I
remember
wee
read in
Genefis
of the
King
of
Sodome; bee
could
fay
to Abraham, Give mee
the
fouls, and take the
goods
to
thy
felf;
though hee were
but
a
Heathen King,
hee
fpake
of their natural
lives
:
So
do
you whore
hearts
God
bath
in-
clined to
foul laving
wales;
fay to
the
men
of
the
world,
Do
you
take
the
riches,
but
let
mee
have
the
fafety
and
welfare
of
the
foul
:
Oh
if
God
have affured
thee
upon
good grounds
that
thy
foul is
fafe,
thy fin
pardoned,
what
great
matter
though
thou
haft
not fame
of
the
lumber
of
this world?
If
a
malefaaour
that
were
in danger
to
die,
lhould
go to
leek for
a
pardon for
his
life,
well,
when
hee
bath
gotten
it,
and
is coming from
the
prefence
of
the
King, perhaps hee
lofes
his
glove or handkerchief
up-
on the flaires, were
it
not
an unfeemly
thing
for
fuck
a
man
to fall
a
crying, and wringing of
his
hands, becaufe
hee
had
loft
his
glove
?
Juft thus,
for
all
the world,
is
the
madnefs
and folly
of
people that
fay,
they
have fome
comfortable
hope
that God will
have mercy upon
their
foils,
and
will
fave
them
for
ever,
yet
when
they are croft
and
wronged,
they cry
out,
they are undone;
man
and woman thou art
not
undone,
for thy foul
is
fafe. Lord firike
(faith
Luther,firike,
onely pardon my
fin
;
And my Brethren, well
may
you
bee
incouraged to undergo any
difficulties,
and
to
bear the
lofs
of
the comforts of
this
world, for the laving of
your
fouls)
for
indeed the Lord bath granted to
us
the
way
of
falvation
of
fouls at
an
eafier
rate than
our
Forefathers
had
;
If
I
should but
tell
you
the
way
that
many
of
our
Forefathers
had
for
the laving of their
fouls, and many
of the
Saints
of
God
in former
times,
you
would
have
faid
then that
it
was
a
difficult way
to
fave fouls,
and
go to Heaven
:
As
I
will
but
give
you
an inftance of one man, and
another woman,
how
hardly
they came
to falvation.
That
bleffed
Martyr
Benjefat4,
fee but what
a
way hee had
to
Heaven for
profef-
fion
of
Chritlian Religion;
The
Perfecetors
came
co
him,
and