Os the Excellency -of the Soul. further, A loft foul is in this condition alto, to be continu- ally under the firoak ofGods juflice, that when it ha,h lain under its pains thoufands of thoufands of years, faith divine jultice, I am not yet fatisfied. Nov that that is required, is, that'the foul thould lye under the wrath of God, unit fuch titnu that God may have as much honour by punishing ir, as bee hath had difhonour by its finning againfl him and that mutt bee for ever; becaufe God can never have fo much honour by the punifhing of it, as hee hath had difho- nour by its fuming againtt him : ( And then) As the foul fhould have had eternal communion with God and Chrifl, &c, it being loll, it mull have communion inftead . thereof with the Devil and the damned fpirits in Hell : And if this bee the condition of a loft foul in Hell, as it is, then }what (hall a man gain in gaining the world, if hee lofe his foul ?. But further, to make this mifery appear to bee mi- fery indeed, There is required a perfeei fenfe of all thefe evils for a man or woman may bee in a loft condition , is many are now, but they do not underhand it, andthere - fore are not fenfible of it. But thai foul that is loll eternally, the Lord Chat! fo far enlighten its underftandinv, as may make it fenfible of all its evil; certainly many this day are in fuch a condition, as did they but underhand the loft condition they are in; it would make them tremble : But now, when the foul is e- ternally loft, it Alan then perfeftlyunderhand what its toil condition is, and then the thoughts of its mind (hall bee fo bufied about its mifery, as that it (hall not bee able to eáfe its felf onemoment,but its thoughts shall be bufied about its condition, fo far as may make it miferable; And the Lord is able to make a creature as fenfible of mifery as hee pleafeth. For this is the propriety of God, to make a creature as fenfible of all the evil that is upon him as bee pleafeth; and if fo, then when all thefe evils come upon the creature , and the Lord intends to make the creature fully fenfible of it ; then certainly it mutt needs bee miferable indeed. Fur- ther , then this löfs of the foul confifts in this, That it mutt Kk have sS7_
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