on the Excellency of the Soul, 2jI (hall have the enjoyment fully and perfe &ly hereaf- ter. And then the continual exercife that the foul (hall be buficd in , to bee for ever bletling, and magnifying, and praifing and wor(hippng of (god and receiving in from God, and letting out its felf to God : The eternal Sabbath that it (hall keep, and then the eternal relt that the foul (hall have, when is comes to God, it comes there to its Center, there it bath perfecci peace And real, and can never have trouble further. Yea, and it (hall live in God; not onely God live hi it , but it (hall, I fay, live in Go I, as (though the fimilitude comes tbort of it) the fill, fwimming in the Sea ; fo the foul (hall bee fwimming in the infinite Ocean of the ex- cellency of the great God. It is faid of 7ehn, that hee Rev, . i o was in the Spirit on the Lords day ; fo the foul (hall live in Cot. 3. 3 God : Onr life is hid with Chrifi in God : But our life lhall bee plain and apparent, not hidden , but apparent before Angels, and all the tell of the ble(fed, and fo our lives ('Hall bee after another manner than now they are. Now to open every one of thefe things would bee very large fo chat it fu(ñces now onely to prefent them to you , to (hew in a (hurt view the good of the foul in the full en- joyment of God, and what it (hall have from him, that fo you may fee what the lofs of the foul means. Now if thefe things bee true and real, Oh what a dreadful thing is it for a man to Iofe his foul , for a man to come to lofe all this good, that others that have fouls like unto him (hall corne to enjoy, and that bee might have enjoyed as well as others l If there were no more in the lofs of the foul but this, to bee tail away from the good that it is capable of it might (hew unto us this lofs to bee very dreadful. Ie is a fpeech of Áuftin long fince fpeaking of that place where Diver did delire Lazarus to come with one drop of eater to Cool his tormented tongue, faith hee , If there (uottld be but ene drop of heavenly felicity let into Hell, itwwoutd quench ali the fire of Hell prefen:ly : And Chry- I i foflome
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