On the Excellency of the Soul. 229 wards you one way or other from all eternity, and intends to fetch out a great deal of honor to his name from you one way or other, and therefore his Providence is towards you; God obferves you , and marks you what way you take, his eye is upon you for hee intends to bring fome great glory our of you, God will not lofe his creature fully, you may lofe your own fou's , but God will not lofe the glory that hee might have from you , but hee will have glory from you one way or other. And if God hath given you immortal fouls , you have caufe to biefs him, becaufe whatfoever you are now , yet you are fuch as are capable of all the good that ever Jefus Chriit bath purchafed. , and therefore it is a happy thing for one to have an immortal foul , becaufe they are not out of capacity of receiving that good that the Lord Chrift hath purchafed for his people;the brute beafts are not capable, they are capable of no higher good , but to eat and drink, and live here a while, and have their fenfes to bee pleafed, and there is an end of them, but know,what- foever thou art, thou art capable of all the good that ever Chrift hath purchafed , and therefore thy condition is a great deal better in that refpe6t than the condition of all other creatures in the world. And thou having a foul with- in thee , God hath made thee for eternity one way or o- ther , and hee intends for to have thee to live to all eter- nity in one condition or other : Now it is I fay , a happi- nefs to bee made fuch a creature, as that God fhould have thoughts about from all eternity. It may bee you will fay , It were better that it were other - wife with sty. I confefs fuch is the condition of fome through their fin, living and dying in it, that it were better ten thoufand. times that they had been Dogs, or Toads, and Serpents, I but that is but through thy wickednefs but it cannot bee faid of the vildeft alive, for there is none of you , but for ought Angels or men know , may live eternally to the praife of Gods grace in Chrift, you have fuch kinde of na- F f 3 tures
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