260: oK the _Excellency of the Sod. If a.man in this world fhould lofe his elate, or any great lofs, hee would have many to pitty him.: if a man lofe by fire, then hee may obtain a gathering, whereby his lofs maybee partly made up, or hee relieved ; or if you lofe your children, you have your friends to pitty you, and to condole with you : But that man that (hall have his foul loft, hee (hall bee in fuch a condition , as that hee (hall have none to pitty him. True , wee are all loft by nature ", but in that our loft condition wee have. God pittying us, and Chrift pittying us, and the Angels looking upon us with pitty, and Saints pittying us ; But hereafter, if loft, none (hall pitty that foul in that condition, when its lofs is eternal. God (hall not piety it, but then the bleífed God (hall look upon it as an objet of his eternal curfe : But no pitty (hall bee have of fouls in that their loft condition; neither thall Je- fus Chrift pitty them : True, Jefus Chrift cante to feek and CO fave thofe that were naturally loa,but yee have done what in you lay to fruftrate the ends of Chrift his coming: and as Chrill (hall not pitty you, fo mercy it felf (hail" not pitty you; but bee fo far from pittying of you, as that it (hall plead againfl you AndAngels they {hall not pitty you, becaufe they f all bee taken up in blefling and práifing of. God for his works, and righteous judgements upon you : Neither (hall the Saints pitty you, though it thy Fa- ther, out of whofe loins thou cametl ; or though it bee thy Mother, out of whole womb thou camefi; yet `. they'fhall. not pitty thee, though thou art loft, and lofl eternally, but (hail,rejoyce at it, and biefs God for liis` junice upon thee : therefore miferable is the condition of a loft foul The fourth aggravation of a loll foul , is this , It will prove unto mó(1 that are loft, an unexpetled lofs :.There are very few th at have any apprehenfions of the lofs of their fouls, but they think they may go on in fin, and yet do Well enough.; It may be thou heareß a Ninifter freak of the lofs of the foul,
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