On the Excellency of the Soul. 243 uttermofithappinefs that they are capable of ; them indeed you thew true love to your fouls , . when as your care is to bring them to the attainment of that end that. God made them for : Certainly when God made a creature of fo much excellency , bee did intend a glorious end for it And let this now bee your great care , and manifeft your love to your fouls, I fay, in this, by labouring to attain the end that God made them for. But this Qaall fuflïce for the Eft point , of the precioufnefs and excellency of our fouls. Wee come now to the fecond , and that is the main Point indeed in the Text, that is, That the lofs of this foul is a mofi dreadful lofs. Skein for skin yea all that a man hath will hee give for hie life ; Even the Devil himfelf could fay fo. The lofs of bo- dily life wee account a great evil , and therefore the Scrip- ture calls Death by the name of the King of Terrours; and is it fo great an evil to lofe a bodily life, to have the foul and body but feparated ? Is the face of a bodily death fo gaftly ? Oh how great an evil , and how gaftly is the face of the eternal death , and the lofs of the immortal foul? This Point my brethren, is a Point of exceeding great con cernment to under! }and; wee !hall therefore, Fiat, Inquire what wee mean by the lofs of the foul, or when may the foul bee faid to bee loft ? The fecond thing, Wherein Both the dreadfulnefs of the lofs of the foul confift? And then thirdly , I !hall difcover to you fotne aggrava- tions of the evil of the lofs of the foul. Fourthly, And then wee (hall come to apply all toge- ther. / FOr the firt} then , What Both Chrift mean when hee faith, what profiteth it a man, if het gain the whole world,and lofe ks foul ? , Raft, You are to know this, That wee are not faid to lofe our fouls, becaufe they thall.bee annihilated , and ceafe ro bee , the ceai ng of the foul to bee , that is not the lofs of H h a the
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