on the Excellency of the Soufi: 145 And fecondly, All our fouls do now naturally wander a- way from God -, continuallydepart , and wander from the infinite glorious firft-being of all things Thou that art an old man or woman that haft lived many years,and God bath' not revealed himfelf in working the true work of conver- lion in thee, to change thy ellate , know, that thy foul bath been departing and wandring from the Lord all the dayes of thy life , to this very prefent, thou art liken loft (beep, wandring up and down in the wildernefs , and in danger ro bee denroyed every minute of an hour by forne wilde beat or other; though it is true, thy foul is not made a prey to the Devil fo as to deltroy thee utterly, yet thou haft been in danger all the while thou haft been wandring from the Lord to bee made a prey upon by the Devil , and uttetly to have been cart away. Yea, and thirdly, There is a great deal of mifery upon thy_ foul , if thou kneweft it; as, contrary to that light that bee hath fet up in thy undemanding , there is blindnefs in thee; there is errour in thee ; contrary to that halinefs that was at firft in thy heart and foul , there is nothing but fin and wickednefs , all the fpauns and feeds of all kinde of fin is in thy heart ; there is a great deal of that evil that is contrary to what thy foul was made witha,ll at firft, there is enmity in thy foul againft God himfelf. Yea, and fourthly, Thy foul is in a fuccourlefs,helplefs, íhiftlefs condition in refpea of what thou art able to. do , or what all the creatures in heaven or earth are able to do for thee ; let all the Angels in heaven , and men in the world , joyn together to feek to do good to tlty foul they are not able to deliver thy fowl from that evil that now it is in, and that it is in further danger of. And this is the rea- fon of that phrafe that you have in lake 19.Yo. The Soap of man is came to feekand tó fave that which was loft. wee are all loft fheep going affray, and Jefus Chrif came to Peek and to fave lot' fouls; Souls deprived of the glary of God, Souls wandring away from God, Souls filled with evil , Souls fuccaurlefs ,, and helplefs in regard of any Rh 3 Rowe'
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