244 On the Exeellency of the Soul. that !wall be with God for ever eternally blefing & praifing .of him, and that! point then out, as with the finger, befo :e God, the Angels, and blefied Sain:s,'errd. fay, Behold, this is hee that was an hypocrite, that fate under the facile word; -and that did partake of the faniemeans and ordinances as I Pfal íL 7. did, and yet hee bath loft his .foul :. Loe this is the man that made not Gad his .7'ay.. -So all they that perish Iliall f}and before men and Angels, and bee pointed at by them, fay - ing , Loe this is the man, and loe this is the woman, that made not God their ftrength, but did fo love their fin, as that they would not by any means bee perfwaded to part with it, but would rather venture the lofs of their fouls, to -injdy their fins, and fulfil their lutt, than part with their fins to fave their fouls. The tenth aggravation of the mifery of a loft foul , is this , When they thatl fee others taken up into the King- dome of Heaven, who were as unlikely to bee faved as themfelves , and they themfelves Phut out, and eternal- ly loft : It may bee thou that art a carnal Mafiermaytt fee thy poor fervant taken up to God, and thou thy'fell that out ; or it may bee the carnal Father or Mother may fee their childe faved , and yet they themfelves loft ; Oh this will bee a fad aggravation of their lofs. And thus you have heard the dreadful lofs of the foul , toge- ther with the aggravations thereof in thefe ten particulars. Now for the life. Is it fo, that the lofs of the foul eternally is fo dread - ful a lots, as you have heard it is? Oh then let every one here biefs God for their fouls , that their fouls are not thus loft. It might have been fo long ere this time ; when fuch a kinfman of thine dyed or thy fellow-fer- vant , or when fuch a neighbour or ampuaintance of thine dyed , if thou hadft but dyedwhen they dyed , thy foal, it may bee, had been eternally loft. This I can affure you, that naturally you are all loft , and what makes the difference between thy foul, and the condition of a loft foul, as you have heard, but
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