.. a _",. ---- SS G'ofeel- Converfation. pollute and defileyour fouls Withfin asyou do from time to time. God loath a high efteem of them, have you a high efteemof them likewife ? Do not make your fouls drudges and fcullions to your bodies, only to make ufe ofyour fouls to provide for the fatisfying of the tufts of the flefb, as many men and women have no other ufe of their precious immortal fouls all their lives, but only their fouls are imployed to be [laves for the lulls of their flefh: Oh I are thefe the fouls that mu ft colt the blood of Chrift, that God hath put fuch a price upon ? furely you do not know the Gofpel nor Jefus Chrift. IfI fhould tel youwhat Phylofophers fay of the foul, of mens immortal eternal fouls (though this benow doubted, yet it was plentifully knovrn a- mong the Heathens) thefe would be but dry things to you in comparifon of this, to tell you that Jefus Chrift bath died to re- deem fouls,theres more in this than in al the arguments that pof- fibly canbe brought to Phew the excellency of the foul ofman. Oh then, likewife. let your Converfation be as becomes this ofthe Gofpel, inyour care of thefouls ofthofe that are committed to your care andcharge. Do you profefs the Gofpel ? then you pro- fefs withal, that God fo efteemed of a foul, that hegave the life and blood ofhis Son to ranfom a foule ; Oh then, really demon- ftrate that you do highly efteem of the fouls ofyour children, and fervants,by walking convincinglybefore them,that you may do all the good you can to them,by inftruhing of them,by pray- ing for them, and with them ; and fo before all your friends and acquaintance, let fuch kind ofmeditations work thus in you as thefe, Oh Lord,Cince I came to know the Gofpel,I have learn'd what a high price thou haft put upon fouls, Lord, this fhail make me for evermore to value fouls at a higher rate than here- tofore I have done. Oh it were an excellent point to urge upon Minifters, who are charged with many fouls, Oh let them fo watch over them, pray for them, and preach to them all the Counfels of God, both in feafon andout offeafon, that in the great Day of Chrift they may be cleer of the blood ofall men, as Paul was. And that is the feventh thing that the Gofpel holds forth unto us, The precioufnefs offouls ; and let your Conver- f.cions be as becomes this great Point of the Gofpel. But
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