{rei zi6 ; on the esçe,Xencyof.the Soul. world , and they do help forward. the work that my foul is fpecially concerned to vtz.'the fervice of God, and therefore I account it a greater good ro injoy thefe things, than to bee without them: now if thou comet} to reafon in this manner , it is a fign that. Cod hash fhewn thee what the true worth and excellency of thy foul is. 6 The price But that I"might draw to a conclufion, 7 his is that that paid for fouls above all things will demonf#rate the worth and excellency of proves its cx- the foul , The great price that war paid for it. That Jefus cell ency. Chrifl Ihould bee": willing to: lay down his life to purchafe the pardon of the fin of thy foul , to deliver thy foul from s Pet,i. i a. eternal mifery, this thews the great worth of the foul; Wee are not redeemed by Aver and gold , faith the Apoftle Peter, V erf 19. by any of the fe corruptible things, but by the precious blood of f of es Chrift. According to the price that is paid for one, you may know the worth of fuch a one: Suppofe there were divers men that were taken captives, one is but an ordinary Mariner , you will fay perhaps forty pound will redeem fuch a one ; but fuppofe the other bee a Gentleman, . or a Knight, a Noble -man, there mull go five hundred, or awo, or three thoufand pounds for their redemption , according to the excellency of the man , fo muff bee the price of his ranfome : So my brethren, when wee confider the price of mens fouls,that were taken captive by fin,what was paid for them, it was a price that was more worth than ten thoufand thoufand worlds ; certainly the foul is of an excellent naL lure : Indeed it cannot: bee imagined that Jefus Chrifr would have taken mans nature 'upon him , and dyed an accurfed death to have .faxed the whole" world from being difí'olved ; Suppofe it had lain upon this, that heaven and earth mull have been diffolved ,. except Jefus Chrifl would cake mans nature upon him , certainly Jefus Chrift would have fuffered heaven and earth to have gone to nothing,ra- Cher -than to have done as he did: But when Jefus Chrill faw that.thefe immortal' .fouls' by their fin were brought into :Arch a condition, that they muff perish to all eternity,, ex- cef-t het come and take their nature upon him, and lay. down
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