Oa the excellency of the Soul. 277 muff couzen, thou niù l fweari, and forfwear , I will do it, faith the foul ; and thus thou doff many times fell thy foul to the Devil : You that are chap-men, if-one should come and offer you a little matter för a commodity that is of price, you have fuch a peece of ware in your (hops that is worth forty (Millings, and one comes and offers . you two -pence for it, why you rife in difdain again(+ it what ! offer mee two-pence for that which is worth forty fhillings; oh now that your hearts would rife in difdain when the Devil comes to buy your fouls ! you fhould rife in difdain, what, thall I venture the felling of this foul of mine, that is more worth than ten thoufand worlds for fuch a poor gain as this is 3 and yet many of you do. Secondly, And then there is a fecond way of a,;mans felling of his foul , and that is when a man (hall refohtite- lygive up himfelf to all manner of wickednefs : Thus it is faid of Ahab, r King, ii. 20. Akob fold himfelf to work, wickedgefc , that is', Ahab in a refolute way was fet upon any manner of wickednefs that might ferve his own turn When a man (hall bee fet upon this that what ever way of wickednefs may bee fubfervient to the attaining of fach and fuch defigns that I have , I will venture upon it , I fay, this man fells his foul in this cafe to the Devil , Ah46 fold himfelf to tvork'wick- ednefs. Sixthly, And then a fixth way of mens lofing their fouls, it is by being poifoned , their fouls are poifoned, and fo they come to bee loft i now the poifon of the foul it is. either wicked company, or wicked erröurs ; either of thofe two. By keeping of wicked company; thou keepea in an in- fatious Air , thou god from home fometimes and meet- eft with fuch wicked company, thou gettetl thy bain, thy poifon there , and poifon works divers waie ; fometimes it will caufe one to fwell mightily ; how many, when they come from . their wicked company, come home with fuch M in 3 fweiling
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