On _ the excellency of the Soul. 285 with al1'delicacies. Luther I remember hee hath an ex- pre , That hee had rather bee in Hell-with 'the Word, than in Paradife without the Word. Ninthly, In the ninth place there- is another fort that lofe their fouls by furfeiting of them; their fouls do furfeit with the cares and pleafures of this life; they glut their hearts with the delights, and pleafures, and cares of this wórld, until their fouls get a furfeit and die of them; giv- ing liberty unto their hearts to delight themfelves in all outward contentments, efpecially if they bee lawful : Now a man or woman may furfeit their fouls, and undo them- Lia;tas perisnrts felves by lawful things; as a man may not onely deflroy om aer, his life by eating potfon, but by a furfeit of good meat , though. the. meat bee' good, yet hee may furfeit upon it : fo, though the things of this world, the cares, and the plea- fures may bee ( as fome things are ) in themfelves lawful, yet by an inordinate and immoderate letting out thy heart to lawful things, thou mayefl forfeit thy foul; and it may die of that furfeit lvIany teen think themfelves out'of dau- b er, if the things that their hearts are upon; bee in them- felves lawful, they are not fwearers, and whoremafl:ers , and drunkards, and theeves, as others are, and therefore they think their fouls may bee faved I fay, thou mayeff budie thy heart onely about that which is in its felf lawful; and yet thy foul may take a furfeit and perifh 'eternally. Tenthly and laflly; Many- lofe. their fouls. by forfeiting them, and that by thefe two waies: Firfl, A man forfeits his foul, as men' do their Coppy- holds, by not tendering that homage to their Lord that is due, by which they hold their Lands, and fo their Lands come to bee forfeit; fo doll thou God bath given thee thy precious foul, more worth-than all the world, and thou holdeft it of God, but fo as thou muff tender up to this Lord that' homage that-is due to him, that is, thou mutt worfhip God When wee come to worfhip, God, this is that wee do, wee come to. tend er -up that homage that wee acknowledge -to bee due to God for thefe fouls' N 3 of
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