On the Excellency of the Soid. 271 drawing of him to fin : It is not enough for thee that thou feeft this thy fin, and thou art forty for it, and thou wilt never feek to draw others any more, no but thou art bound, if fuch bee alive, ro go to them if thou canft, and to feek now to do them as much. good for their fouls, as thou wert a caufe of evil; what if this foul fbould perish lafl by this fin, that thou wert a caufe to draw them to, thòu hadit need look about thee while they live, that if it bee polible thou =yell make a fatisfa6tion for that foul wrong that thou haft done to them; and it may bee fuch a one is dead,. and fo dead, as for ought thou kno,vell hee never did repent him of that fin; now then fee what a cafe thou art in : there is one drawn to a fin by thee, and now hee is in Hell for that fin that thou Wert the caufe of; what a cafe haft thou brought thy felf into now ? Is it any o_herwìfe like, but that thòu muff follow ? (hall one bee in Hell for a fin that thou wert the caufe of, and doff thou think alwaies to efc ape ? here is the dreadful elate that any man brings himfelf to, when hee draws others to fin: thou hadfl need to look about thee, and thy heart to bee affected with that fin that bath been puniflied with the eternal damnation of thofe fouls that thou haft drawn to that fin, - -- And not only by temp- ting to fin, but by incouraging to fin, by diffwading from that that is good: It may bee force fouls have been in a good forwardnefs to that which is good, they have begun to inquire after the waies of God`, but have gotten into thy company, and thou haft fought to take them off; and what, will you bee fuch fools as to beleeve every thing that is Paid, and you will'bee melancholly and mad , and who are they but a company of limple people that do thus and'thus? and thus thou haft been a means to hinder the good work of God in others, and to draw ` them from the good way that they were a beginning to Let their feet in,' and now they begin to bee out of love with the good wales of God , and thou haft been the caufe of it Now, if there fouls perish, and it may bee force of them are in Hell already ; truly, if a mans heart we_e as hard as any Iron , or Steel an
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