27z On the Excellency of the. - Soul. in the world, one would think that fuch a meditation as this should break his heart in peeces : That I know nothing to the contrary but fume may bee in Hell for my caufe. -- And fo many other waies wee might name, how a man might have his hand in the lofs of the fouls -of others; what way fo- ever thou hail a hand in the fin of others, or keeping of o- thers from good, fo many waies thou mayell have a hand in the lofs of their fouls: But I intend not to hand upon this point,, onely confider of it, and the Lord (bike the hearts of thole that are guilty in this kind ; But the main ufe that. I would fpend the chief part of the time in , is this , Uic 4 If the lofs of a foul bee fo dreadful, then hence is re- buked the folly and madnefs of moll , people that have no care of their fouls, but through their own wretched -nefs and vilenefs they fufler their fouls to perifh eternally; 'all their care is in pampering their bodies and making much of them, but little minding their fouls , and their eternal e- lates : Certainly when the bodies of thofe fouls thall meet them at the day of judgement, it will bee a very dreadful meeting: When thine immortal foul shall know what it is to bee loll forever, and flail bee brought to joyn again with the body, Oh how do you think it will look upon that turfed carkafs:? Oh this is that carkafs, that body of mine, for whofe fake I mull perifh for ever, . yea. and wee muff mow bee joyned both together, to bee fuel for the wrath of the Infinite God to burn upon to all eternity ! certainly fouls are loft, and perifh thick and threefold, they go down to Hell, as Bees flie to the hive in the time of a florm : -There - are many waies by which the foul may bee loll, though there bee but one by. which it may bee faved. The feveral waies by which men ,come to.lefe their Souls. As fiat, Some there are that lofe their fouls by wandrit ,up and down in darknefs all the daies of their lives, by wandring
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